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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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Writer
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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There's no great loss without some small gain.
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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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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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