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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEREvery job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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