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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERMany a good beginning makes a bad ending.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Life begins at eighty.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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