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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThese happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
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