Glinda of Oz chapter 8--Remember kids, you're not important if you're not pretty

(Commonplace Book)

From Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum

In a beautiful throne room, surrounded by a dozen or more young men and women, sat the Queen of the Skeezers, Coo-ee-oh. She was a girl who looked older than Ozma or Dorothy—fifteen or sixteen, at least—and although she was elaborately dressed as if she were going to a ball she was too thin and plain of feature to be pretty. But evidently Queen Coo-ee-oh did not realize this fact, for her air and manner betrayed her as proud and haughty and with a high regard for her own importance. 

(From chapter 8.  Page 1426 in The Complete Stories of Oz edition)