Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
LAURA INGALLS WILDEREvery 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
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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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