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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Heart Life Lying Sweet
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
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
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
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.
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Better Childhood Growth Heart Spirit
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
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
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet
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
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
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Funny Literature Stupidity Word
Life begins at eighty.
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Beginning Deep Life One Liner Perspective
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
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
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Age Common Oneself Place Wonder

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