People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERSome old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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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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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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.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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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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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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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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