These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERLife begins at eighty.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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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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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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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.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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