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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
Autobiographer
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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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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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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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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If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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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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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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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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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
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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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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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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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Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.
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She heard pa shouting,Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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