In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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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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The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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