Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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.
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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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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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