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• 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!...
• When traveling, the sages say, one must always be prepared to accept local customs.
  Yet there are areas of this very kingdom where one might find it customary to tax a wizard into poverty...
• There are as many styles of magic as there are magicians.
  While much of magic is gaudy, noisy, and easily appreciated by the masses, it goes without saying that some of the finest sorcery is also the most subtle...
• 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....
• A wizard is only as good as his spells," people will often say.
  It is telling however, that this statement is only made by people who have never been wizards themselves....
• In magic, as in all true professions, there are rules by which you must play.
  At least, you must play by them until such time as you can get away with something else....
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....
• Wizards encounter periods of crisis from time to time.
  It comes with the job, right along with the robes and the pointy hat....