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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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 WILDER

Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Myself True
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
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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Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Greatness Loss Small
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Eyes Man Rich Walk
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Gold Water Wings
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Fear Heart Help Limitation Ourselves
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Change Courage Honesty Reality Simplicity Wrong
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Need Shine Stone
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Achievement Dreams Greatness Inspirational Motivational
We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Advice Heart Human Light Live Person Thinking Way

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