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1 " 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 , The Road to Oz (Oz, #5)
2 " Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood. "
3 " In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows. "
4 " Is it a toy?" asked Button-Bright softly."No, dear," answered Dorothy; "it's better than that. It's the fairy dwelling of a fairy prince. "
5 " It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world. "
6 " The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends. "
7 " ...The more stupid one is the more he thinks he knows. "
8 " Better even than this: all seemed happy and contented, for their faces were smiling and free from care, and music and laughter might be heard on every side. “Don’t they work at all?” asked the shaggy man. “To be sure they work,” replied the Tin Woodman; “this fair city could not be built or cared for without labor, nor could the fruit and vegetables and other food be provided for the inhabitants to eat. But no one works more than half his time, and the people of Oz enjoy their labors as much as they do their play. "
9 " He examined the contents of the closets and selected an elegant suit of clothing. Strangely enough, everything about it was shaggy, although so new and beautiful, and he sighed with contentment to realize that he could now be finely dressed and still be the shaggy man. "
10 " The North Country is purple, and it's the Country of the Gillikins. The East Country is blue, and that's the Country of the Munchkins. Down at the South is the red Country of the Quadlings, and here, in the West, the yellow Country of the Winkies. "
11 " Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them. "
12 " Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use. "
13 " If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world," declared the Tin Woodman. "Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use. "
14 " You have some queer friends, Dorothy," she said. "The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends," was the answer. "
15 " I've learned from long experience that every road leads somewhere, or there wouldn't be any road; so it's likely that if we travel long enough, my dear, we will come to some place or another in the end. What place it will be we can't even guess at this moment, but we're sure to find out when we get there. "
16 " But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves." "I don't," declared the shaggy man. "That is true," said the King, looking at him carefully; "but perhaps you are not civilized. "
