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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERPeople used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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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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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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