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L. Frank Baum quotes

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“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each others' faults.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“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, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“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, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“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, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“If we walk far enough . . . I am sure we shall sometime come to some place.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“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, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“everything has to come to an end, some time.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“How very wet this water is!” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china. It was smooth, like the surface of a dish, and higher than their heads.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard 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, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“How can I help being a humbug, . . . when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“do try, to be more cheerful and take life as you find it.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would ever be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends” L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz
“Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Perhaps the women are made of cast iron.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best, so she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“that is very interesting history . . . and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

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