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Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American
Author
Born:
Feb 7
,
1867
Died:
Feb 10
,
1957
Could
Country
He
Man
Work
You
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Work
Best
Good
You
Man
Work Hard
Job
Smell
Nothing
Every
Only
Do Your Best
Stinks
Your
Hard
Who
Works
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 born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Today
Time
Girl
Long
Long Time
Big
Babies
Baby
Ma
Carrie
Laura
Born
Small
Mary
Wisconsin
Long Time Ago
Perhaps
House
Boy
Were
Left
Very
Woods
Pa
Little
Grandfathers
Little Girls
Grandmothers
Even
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Organization
Trouble
Folks
Pretty
More
Attention
Soon
Than
Get
Organized
Paying
Organizing
Thing
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
You
Naughty
Later
Once
Easier
Dreadful
Something
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Go
Begin
Being
Happens
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
You
Sky
Edge
Nothing
White
Stretched
Enormous
Way
See
Could
Tracks
Smooth
Wagon
Ended
Where
Flat
Lake
Far
Across
Away
Gray
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
Winter
Long
Country
Grass
Trees
Ma
High
About
He
Talked
Were
West
Western
Grew
Land
Evenings
Thick
Level
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
Day
Every Day
Path
Become
Every
Laura
Slowly
Mary
Had
Road
Almost
Almost Every Day
House
Wagon
Surprise
Stopped
Little
Stared
Playing
I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Work
Love
Man
Own
Busy
Pleasure
My Own
Could
Write
Obtained
Housework
Always
Doing
Been
Person
Oh
Just
Place
Help
Helping
Busy Person
Play
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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Work
People
Work Hard
Weather
Wind
Think
Enough
Enough People
Guess
Pretty
Bound
Happen
Hard
Nearly
Thing
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
People
Animals
Country
Wild
Wild Animals
Would
Stay
He
Like
Liked
Without
Were
Did
So Many People
Afraid
Being
Where
Being Afraid
Pa
Either
Many
Lived
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Eyes
Settled
Worst
Mary
Had
Blind
Fever
Far
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
Grace
Too
Baby
Ma
Carrie
Laura
Scarlet
Mary
Had
No-One
Been
Fever
Pa
Across
Help
Creek
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
Made
White
Sold
Ma
He
Over
House
Calf
Him
Bows
Box
Wagon
Cow
Upright
Pa
Canvas
Little
Them
Helped
Fastened
Stretch
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 now.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Long
Seen
Before
Once
Way
Laura
Through
Mary
Had
Long Way
Drove
Town
Looked
Till
Came
Different
Woods
Now
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