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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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It is necessary that we dream now and then. No one ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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When the days begin to lengthen,
The cold begins to strengthen.
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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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People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
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Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.
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The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.
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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery. It makes the wheels run smoothly, and without it there is a great deal of friction and the possibility of a breakdown.
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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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.
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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.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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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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