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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fear Heart Help Limitation Ourselves
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Education Live Object
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Death Easy
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Greatness Loss Small
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
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
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
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Bad Beginning End Goodness
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

God Himself Planning Wrong
Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enjoyment Extra Ourselves Philosophy Time
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Oneself Politics Togetherness Vote Woman
If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself

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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