L. Frank Baum

“If I had a heart”

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“It was a good fight, friend.”

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“Tol-de-ri-de-oh!” at”

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“Don’t try, my dear,”

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“cut the beast’s head clean”

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“24. Home Again Aunt”

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How very wet this water is.

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“THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ 1.”

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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

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Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

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It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

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A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

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“Lions and tigers and Funkyoid, oh my!”

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Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

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I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

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“traveling through her country. This made her angrier”

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“I'm glad I don't know everything, Dorothy, and that there still are things in both nature and in wit for me to…

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“In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians" ~ The Witch of the North”

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“You are both rich, my friends," said Ozma, gently; "and your riches are the only riches worth having—the riches of content!”

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“and the Lion," he said to the Woodman, "and the bees cannot sting them." This the Woodman did, and as Dorothy lay…

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When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old…

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“People often do a good deed without hope of reward, but for an evil deed they always demand payment.”

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“Do try to be more cheerful and take life as you find it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by…

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During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was…

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Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

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No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any…

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Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him;…

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“Don't tell anyone I'm a poet; they might want me to write a book. Don't tell 'em I can sing, or they'd…

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“H.M.," said the Woggle-Bug, pompously, "means Highly Magnified; and T.E. means Thoroughly Educated. I am, in reality, a very big bug, and…

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“It is but honest that I should acknowledge at the beginning of my recital that I was born an ordinary Woggle-Bug," began…

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“wonderful power the Silver Shoes gave her. So the Wicked Witch laughed to herself, and thought, "I can still make her my…

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“But I do not wish to fight," declared Ozma, firmly. "No one has the right to destroy any living creatures, however evil…

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“I think,' said the little Queen, smiling, 'that your friend must be the richest man in all the world.' 'I am,' returned…

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“When shall we start?” asked the Scarecrow. “Are you going?” they asked, in surprise. “Certainly. If it wasn’t for Dorothy I should…

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Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of…

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Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?"…

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I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to…

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We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of…

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“Now then, Mr. Crab," said the zebra, "here are the people I told you about; and they know more than you do,…

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“Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was…

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