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From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The novel's most-quoted lines, several of which entered American idiom through the 1939 film but originate (in altered form) in Baum's text.
Chapter 15
I am a humbug.
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Chapter 24

'I'm so glad to be at home again!' (the textual root of 'there's no place like home').

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Chapter 4

'Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.' --The Wizard, later in Chapter 16; one of Baum's most-quoted aphorisms.

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