Never bet your money on another man’s game.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Life begins at eighty.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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