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1 " 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. "
― Laura Ingalls Wilder , Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
2 " The days never have been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.” . . . "
3 " Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using of spare moments we may find an invalid at the end, while perhaps if we allowed ourselves more idle time we would conserve our nervous strength and health to more than the value of the work we could accomplish by emulating at all times the little busy bee. Laura Ingalls Wilder; , February 20, 1916 "
4 " We are told that "There is no great loss without some small gain.' Even so I think that there is no great gain without a little loss. Laura Ingalls Wilder, So We Moved the Spring "
5 " Keep up with the march of progress for the time is coming when the cities will be the workshops of the world and abandoned to the workers, while the real cultured, social and intellectual life will be in the city. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Favors The Small Farm Home , Feb. 18, 1911 "
