"You are quite the funniest individual I have seen in all my travels." "Do you suppose I can be any funnier than you ?" asked the Frogman, gazing at her in wonder.
"I'm not funny to myself, you know," returned Scraps.

"I wish I were.
And perhaps you are so used to your own absurd shape that you do not laugh whenever you see your reflection in a pool or in a mirror." "No," said the Frogman gravely, "I do not.

I used to be proud of my great size and vain of my culture and education, but since I bathed in the Truth Pond, I sometimes think it is not right that I should be different from all other frogs." "Right or wrong," said the Patchwork Girl, "to be different is to be distinguished.

Now in my case, I'm just like all other Patchwork Girls because I'm the only one there is.

But tell me, where did you come from ?" "The Yip Country," said he.
"Is that in the Land of Oz ?" "Of course," replied the Frogman.
"And do you know that your Ruler, Ozma of Oz, has been stolen ?" "I was not aware that I had a Ruler, so of course I couldn't know that she was stolen." "Well, you have.