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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Funny Literature Stupidity Word
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Beginning Start Time Wait
Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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Enjoyment Extra Ourselves Philosophy Time
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Age Common Oneself Place Wonder
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Constant Friendship Hard Mindset Remember
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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Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
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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Enough Hard Work Myself People
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
Life begins at eighty.
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Beginning Deep Life One Liner Perspective
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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Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
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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Beautiful Eyes Herself Thinking
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
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
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time

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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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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