The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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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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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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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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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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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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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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 not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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