Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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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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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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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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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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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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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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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The 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.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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