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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say. Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Born: February 7, 1867

Died: February 10, 1957 (aged 90)

Bio: Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's novels based on her childhood in a settler family.

Known for:

Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
Farmer Boy (1933)
The Long Winter (1940)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography

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