"If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s."

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…and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.

— L. Frank Baum