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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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Choice Dangerous Need Sadness Yourself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Energy Money Pay Promise Representation Value
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Herself Lonely Memories Mom Place World
When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Lubrication Machine
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Gold Water Wings
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Bad Beginning End Goodness
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Organization Pay Trouble
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Myself True
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enough Hard Work Myself People
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Fever Home Short Sick Visit Wrong Yourself
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Age Common Oneself Place Wonder
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Build Exception Father Home Need Ourselves
Home is the nicest word there is.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Home One Liner Word
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Comfortable Home Journey Travel
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Constant Friendship Hard Mindset Remember
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Need Wild
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

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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