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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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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Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
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Better Childhood Growth Heart Spirit
Home is the nicest word there is.
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Home One Liner Word
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Heart Life Lying Sweet
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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Game Man Money
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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Oneself Politics Togetherness Vote Woman
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Education Live Object
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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Beginning Start Time Wait
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Eyes Man Rich Walk
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Defeat Fashion Hard Nature Old Sunshine
The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.
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Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Count Oneself Work
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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Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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Constant Friendship Hard Mindset Remember
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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Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
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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Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
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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Attention Organization Pay Trouble
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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Afraid Animal Country Father Stay Wild
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Funny Literature Stupidity Word
There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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God Himself Planning Wrong
Let your joy scream across the pain.
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Joy Pain Scream Yourself
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
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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Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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Live Opportunity Ourselves Place Possible Quiet Thinking
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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Beginning Death Easy

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