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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThat which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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The wilderness needs your whole attention.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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Life begins at eighty.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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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.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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