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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Education Live Object
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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Laughter Remember Smile Tears Yourself
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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Advice Heart Human Light Live Person Thinking Way
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
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet
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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Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
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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Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Beginning Start Time Wait
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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Beginning Death Easy
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
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Game Man Money
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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Enough Hard Work Myself People
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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Attention Need Wild
Home is the nicest word there is.
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Home One Liner Word
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Funny Literature Stupidity Word
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
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Constant Friendship Hard Mindset Remember
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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Bad Beginning End Goodness
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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Each Other Goodness Happiness Help Kindness Love
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Life Myself Represent Understand
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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Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild
You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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Deep End Heart Inspirational Land Travel Work Yourself
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

Live Opportunity Ourselves Place Possible Quiet Thinking
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Eyes Man Rich Walk
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time

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