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.
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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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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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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 object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
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