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 WILDERNever bet your money on another man’s game.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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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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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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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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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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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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