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Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age: 90 †
Born: 1867
Born: February 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 10
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Wisconsin
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Lansford Ingalls
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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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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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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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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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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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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Ma sighed gently and said, A whole year gone, Charles. But Pa answered, cheerfully: What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.
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