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Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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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Energy Money Pay Promise Representation Value
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
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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Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
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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Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
Home is the nicest word there is.
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Home One Liner Word
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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Best Change Courage Honesty Reality Simplicity Wrong
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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God Himself Planning Wrong
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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Better Childhood Growth Heart Spirit
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Heart Life Lying Sweet
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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Achievement Dreams Greatness Inspirational Motivational
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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Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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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Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild
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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Laughter Remember Smile Tears Yourself

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

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