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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz quotes

L. Frank Baum

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

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