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Laura Ingalls Wilder quotes

American Author February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957

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Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "Never bet your money on another man's game."
Never bet your money on another man's game. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets! It's raining..."
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets! It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles! Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and..."
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind. Laura Ingalls Wilder
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. Laura Ingalls Wilder
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. Laura Ingalls Wilder
So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "There's no great loss without some small gain."
There's no great loss without some small gain. Laura Ingalls Wilder
That machine's a great invention!" he said. "Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there's one anywhere in the neighborhood. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home."
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home. Laura Ingalls Wilder
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. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "Home is the nicest word there is."
Home is the nicest word there is. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for..."
We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started. Laura Ingalls Wilder
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. Laura Ingalls Wilder
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road. Laura Ingalls Wilder

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