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“That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”

L. Frank Baum

“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
- Wizard”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”

L. Frank Baum

“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: "All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."
"I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“How very wet this water is.”

L. Frank Baum book The Marvelous Land of Oz

Source: The Marvelous Land of Oz

“Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”

L. Frank Baum book The Marvelous Land of Oz

Source: The Marvelous Land of Oz

“You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.

The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer”

L. Frank Baum book The Road to Oz

Source: The Road to Oz

“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.”

L. Frank Baum

“If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”

L. Frank Baum book The Marvelous Land of Oz

Source: The Marvelous Land of Oz

“Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“My world, my world… How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness.
- Wicket Witch of the North”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz