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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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Day Gold Water Wings
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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Enjoy Live People Time Work
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Count Oneself Work
Life begins at eighty.
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Beginning Deep Life One Liner Perspective
Let your joy scream across the pain.
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Joy Pain Scream Yourself
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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Oneself Politics Togetherness Vote Woman
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Game Man Money
Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Beautiful Eyes Herself Thinking
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Herself Lonely Memories Mom Place World
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Education Live Object
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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Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
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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Energy Money Pay Promise Representation Value
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Choice Dangerous Need Sadness Yourself
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Age Common Oneself Place Wonder

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

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