Never bet your money on another man’s game.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIt is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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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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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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Life begins at eighty.
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