People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThere’s no great loss without some small gain.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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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.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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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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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.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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