A scene from The Wizard of Oz 1939
Dorothy

If you were king, you wouldn't be afraid of anything?

Cowardly Lion

Not nobody! Not no how!

Dorothy

Not even a rhinoceros?

Cowardly Lion

Imp-oceros!

Tin Man

How about a hippopotamus?

Cowardly Lion

Why, I'd thrash him from top to bottom-us!

Dorothy

Supposing you met an elephant?

Cowardly Lion

I'd knot him up in cellophant!

Scarecrow

What if it were a Brontosaurus?

Cowardly Lion

I'd show him who's King of the Forest!

Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man

[in unison]

How?

Cowardly Lion

How? Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on a mast to wave? Courage! What makes an elephant charge his tusk, in the misty mist or the dusky dusk? What makes a muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the Seventh Wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like THUNDER? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?

Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man

[in unison]

Courage.

Cowardly Lion

You can say that again! [short pause; realizing] Hmm?

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