It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERTact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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Life begins at eighty.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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