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Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Oneself Politics Togetherness Vote Woman
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
Let your joy scream across the pain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Joy Pain Scream Yourself
No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Eyes Man Rich Walk
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Herself Lonely Memories Mom Place World
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
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Forever Love Suffering Wasted Time
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Bad Beginning End Goodness
Never bet your money on another man’s game.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Game Man Money
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
Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Build Exception Father Home Need Ourselves
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Laughter Remember Smile Tears Yourself
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Need Shine Stone
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Change Courage Honesty Reality Simplicity Wrong

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