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Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Friendship Goodness Progression Time Trouble
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Dignity Goodness Ideas Important Ourselves Time Value
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Day Enough Interest Investment Profit
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Better Childhood Growth Heart Spirit
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Comfortable Home Journey Travel
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Darkness Difficult Goodness Laughter Oneself
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Gold Happiness Moments Time
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Each Other Goodness Happiness Help Kindness Love
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Lubrication Machine
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Cheerful Family Ourselves Purse Right Steal Stranger
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Battle Better Earth Happiness Life Mindset Thankful
Let your joy scream across the pain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Joy Pain Scream Yourself
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Live Opportunity Ourselves Place Possible Quiet Thinking
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Bad Beginning End Goodness
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth

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