These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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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.
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