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

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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
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
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Need Shine Stone
I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Believe Direction Happiness Personal Revolution Simplicity Thinking
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Choice Dangerous Need Sadness Yourself
You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Deep End Heart Inspirational Land Travel Work Yourself
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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Each Other Goodness Happiness Help Kindness Love
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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Life Love Nature Simplicity Sweet Worth
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
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Funny Literature Stupidity Word
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
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
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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
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
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Blind Eyes Worst
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Count Oneself Work
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
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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Build Exception Father Home Need Ourselves
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
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
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Bad Beginning End Goodness
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine

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