Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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It 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.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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