People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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 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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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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Every 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.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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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 uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
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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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