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 WILDERRemember 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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 a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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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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