A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERFar worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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