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Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
Letters and essays
Kontext: When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

“And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”

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L. Frank Baum buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

this is a line spoken by Frank Morgan's depiction of the Wizard of Oz in the 1939 film, which debuted 20 years after Baum's death. It did not actually appear in the "Wonderful Wizard of Oz". The ending of "Steam Engines of Oz" wrongly attributes this phrase to Baum when it would've originated from the 1939 adaptation script writers Langley/Ryerson/Woolf.
Misattributed
Variante: A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others
Quelle: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.”

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L. Frank Baum buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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“Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz”

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L. Frank Baum buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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“To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.”

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L. Frank Baum buch The Emerald City of Oz

Quelle: The Emerald City of Oz

“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason […] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”

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“He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy.
"Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion.
"Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl.”

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L. Frank Baum buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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“If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”

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L. Frank Baum buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Quelle: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Kontext: The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, "I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas."
"That is because you have no brains" answered the girl. "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."
The Scarecrow sighed.
"Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains."

“I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,"
spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar.
Who are you, and why do you seek me?”

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L. Frank Baum buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Quelle: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“… It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil…”

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L. Frank Baum buch The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Quelle: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

“I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.”

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L. Frank Baum

“His father thought he had a wond'rous wise look when he was born, and so he named him Solomon, thinking that if indeed he turned out to be wise the name would fit him nicely, whereas, should he be mistaken, and the boy grow up stupid, his name could be easily changed to Simon.”

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L. Frank Baum

"The Wond'rous Wise Man", in Mother Goose in Prose (1897)
Short stories

“Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead.
He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring.
He was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his. In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions: forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites. And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery. What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt? What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies.”

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Saturday Pioneer (20 December 1890)
The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer (1890 and 1891)

“"Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!" chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. "But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?"”

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Rinkitink of Oz (1916), Ch. 5 : The Three Pearls
Later Oz novels

“There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches.”

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L. Frank Baum buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Kontext: There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches. I know this is true, for I am one of them myself, and cannot be mistaken. Those who dwelt in the East and the West were, indeed, wicked witches; but now that you have killed one of them, there is but one Wicked Witch in all the Land of Oz — the one who lives in the West.