Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERRemember 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.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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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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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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There’s no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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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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