All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERIf the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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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 is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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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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