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Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
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
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Wisconsin
United States
Laura Ingalls
Lansford Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
Tact
Machinery
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Life
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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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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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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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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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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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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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It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
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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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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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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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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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All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
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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 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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Never bet your money on another man's game.
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
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There's no great loss without some small gain.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
