I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourse…

Gregory Maguire
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I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy. ✨ Gregory Maguire (2009). Son of a Witch: Volume Two in The Wicked Years, p.36, Harper Collins
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I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy. ✨ Gregory Maguire (2009). Son of a Witch: Volume Two in The Wicked Years, p.36, Harper Collins

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