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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Gold Water Wings
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Death Easy
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Lubrication Machine
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Funny Literature Stupidity Word
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Energy Money Pay Promise Representation Value
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Constant Friendship Hard Mindset Remember
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Laughter Remember Smile Tears Yourself
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Animal Food Live Man See Wild
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Better Childhood Growth Heart Spirit
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 WILDER

Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Myself Represent Understand
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal

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