We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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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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.
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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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