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Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Comfortable Home Journey Travel
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
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
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Oneself Reality Simplicity Sweet
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Different Feeling Home Member Photograph Spirit
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Education Live Object
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
In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Absence Enjoyment Feeling Order Time
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Blind Eyes Worst
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
Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Courage Kindness Loyalty Need Truth
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 WILDER

Day Food Hungry Ourselves Starve Steal
The wilderness needs your whole attention.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Need Wild
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.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Animal Food Live Man See Wild

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