It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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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 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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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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