The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERCourage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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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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