It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThese 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.
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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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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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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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Life begins at eighty.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
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I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the ‘woman’s vote’ as one and indivisible.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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