Frank Baum
Frank Baum
knows greatest-gifts
The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.
fame wisps i-have-learned
I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-wisp.
beautiful children world
In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,
beautiful may beautiful-things
Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,
beautiful flower action
Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.
giving unhappy forget
I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
class may demon
Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.
children doors wife
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.
children book writing
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
heart care tin
The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
war fall hands
The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.
cities yellow bricks
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
sleep thinking brain
"It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly."
awe great-things remove
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.