It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
From Laura Ingalls Wilder
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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.
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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.
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.
Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Home is the nicest word there is.
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