That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEROnce you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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.
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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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