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Quote by L. Frank Baum

“People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”

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L. Frank Baum was an American author best known for his fantasy novel series, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'. His works have had a profound impact on children's literature. more

“There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.”

People Heart Matter Hands Desire Turns Quality Successful Lucky Meetings Ache Rivals

Book:Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”

Ifs Suffering Asks One Thing Disappear Command Distasteful

Book:Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

“I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.”

Hard Parent Childhood

Author:Michael Grant

“You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!”

Knows Want Said Courses Asks Dislike Life Happiness

Book:Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.”

Feels Persons Long Made Home Lasts Form Suffering Imagination Brother Senses Ease Sensations Conception Agony Adopted Racks

Author:Adam Smith

“He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.”

Ifs Stills Legs Expected Teeth Cake Dozen Sprouts Frowning

Book:The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

Quote by L. Frank Baum

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