The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThese happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
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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 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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.
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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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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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