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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age: 90 †
Born: 1867
Born: February 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 10
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Reporter
Teacher
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
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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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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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She heard pa shouting,Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
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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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Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
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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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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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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
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There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
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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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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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