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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Myself Represent Understand
Let your joy scream across the pain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Joy Pain Scream Yourself
We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beginning Start Time Wait
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beautiful Eyes Herself Thinking
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

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

Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Animal Food Live Man See Wild
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
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Appearance Character Thinking Yourself
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
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
There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Enjoy Live People Time Work

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

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