If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERThe only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Let your joy scream across the pain.
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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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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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We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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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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