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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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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Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
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
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
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Funny Literature Stupidity Word
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
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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Beginning Death Easy
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
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Fear Heart Help Limitation Ourselves
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Comfortable Home Journey Travel
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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Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
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Attention Organization Pay Trouble
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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Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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Need Shine Stone
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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Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

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