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23 quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder (/ˈɪŋɡəlz/; February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer, most notably the author of the Little House on the Prairie books of children's novels based on her childhood in a settler family. Her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, encouraged her to write and helped her to edit and publish the novels. A popular television series was loosely based on the Little House books, starring Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls and...
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at... →

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Home is the nicest word there is.

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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

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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 long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even... →

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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... →

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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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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... →

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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... →

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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different... →

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