Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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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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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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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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