We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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