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

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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Eyes Man Rich Walk
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

Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Life Myself Represent Understand
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Game Man Money
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
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Comfortable Home Journey Travel
We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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Advice Heart Human Light Live Person Thinking Way
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Bad Beginning End Goodness
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Blind Eyes Worst
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Oneself Politics Togetherness Vote Woman
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Count Oneself Work
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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Beautiful Life Live Moments True Way
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
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
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
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Herself Lonely Memories Mom Place World
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Constant Friendship Hard Mindset Remember
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
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
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Need Wild
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Funny Literature Stupidity Word
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Achievement Dreams Greatness Inspirational Motivational

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