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• A wizard must always know how to use words. Practice smiling as you recite the following simple exercise.
  First: "The spell has not worked. It is best that you get out of your house before it explodes....
• What?" you cry. "Wizards sometimes must endure torture?
  And it is true, for being a wizard does not exempt you from any of the trials and tribulations experienced by other humans....
• And what is the professional wizard's greatest reward for completing a particularly arduous and dangerous task?
  Is it the accolades of a grateful populace? Is it huge amounts of gold and silver tossed about his feet?...
• Some people think of wizards as nothing more than men in pointy hats who like to go around turning people into toads.
  Nothing could be farther from the truth. Perhaps wizards should come together and agree on a saying or two to better humanize their professio...
• When one first arrives in Vushta, one should beware of street sellers offering forbidden delights near the outskirts of town.
  These first delights are far more shoddy in nature than those to be had in the inner City, and can be actively unpleasant if you do not have an affinity for goats....
• Wizards are constantly subject to negative publicity.
  A case in point. One elderly wizard of my acquaintance, whenever he was bothered by unexpected guests, would immediately cast one of three spells upon them, either turning them to stone, transforming them into segmented worms, or blasting them entirely out of the kingdom....
• It is of tremendous importance, when a wizard enters a battle, that he should have prepared sufficient spells beforehand to meet anything that he might face during the coming fight.
  It is even more important that the wizard act bravely during the course of the fight, so that he might do credit to the names of wizards everywhere....
• Heroics can be costly and involve some degree of personal danger for the participating wizard.
  But for the truly resourceful magician, this does not have to be!...
• Casual amusement can be one of a wizard's greatest problems.
  After all, when one can conjure virtually anything, what can one do to 'get away from it all?...