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Money hasn't any value of its own it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age: 90 †
Born: 1867
Born: February 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 10
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went they ended in nothing at all.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
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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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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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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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We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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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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The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
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