Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Never bet your money on another man’s game.
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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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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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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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