“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

—  L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856–1919

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