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 WILDERWe must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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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 wilderness needs your whole attention.
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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.
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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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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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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.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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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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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.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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