Laura Ingalls Wilder Short Quotes

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

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The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

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

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When the days begin to lengthen,
The cold begins to strengthen.

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That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

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

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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

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In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

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Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.

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She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets! It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

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I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

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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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There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

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I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

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He counted all the bills over twice, and he looked exactly like a man skinning a flea for its hide and tallow.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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