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Never bet your money on another man's game.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age: 90 †
Born: 1867
Born: February 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 10
Autobiographer
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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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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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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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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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful to make the most of what we have to be happy with simple pleasures and have courage when things go wrong.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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She heard pa shouting,Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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