storybook girl

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Dorothy had accomplished all these wonders not because she was a fairy or had any magical powers whatever, but because she was a simple, sweet and true little girl who was honest to herself and to all whom she met. In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders, and in the Land of Oz Dorothy found these same qualities had won for her the love and admiration of the Oz people.  —L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz

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“Ah, dear little Nutcracker,” Marie murmured very softly. “Please don’t be angry at me because my brother Fritz hurt you so. Now I will nurse you until you are fully sound and merry again; as to fastening in your teeth and setting your shoulders, that Godfather Drosselmeier must do; he is an expert in such matters.”   — E. T. A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King