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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERMoney 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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