'Money! Money in Oz!' cried the Tin Woodman. 'What a queer idea! Did you suppose we are so vulgar as to use money here?' 'Why not?' asked the shaggy man. 'If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world,' declared the Tin Woodman. 'Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.' 'Good!' cried the shaggy man, greatly pleased to hear this. 'I also despise money - a man in Butterfield owes me fifteen cents, and I will not take it from him. The Land of Oz is surely the most favored land in all the world, and its people the happiest. I should like to live here always.'

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