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My people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City, and it certainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed to make one happy.  I have been good to the people, and they like me; but ever since this Palace was built, I have shut myself up and would not see any of them.

Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge.

'I am going to Oz to get my brains at last. When I return I shall be as other men are.'

'Am I really wonderful?' 'You are unusual.'

The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard.

I shall take the heart, for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.