"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

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Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Sweet Quotes #Real Quotes #Simple Quotes

“The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.”
“Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.”
“I am not here for women only, but also for women.”
“For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.”

Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org
“The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.”
“The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.”

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.27, Library of America
“There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that people tend to get emotional about. After all, money involves, and always has involved, something closely akin to faith-which probably explains why in many past societies the money system has been in the hands of a priesthood, the subject of magical rites, and the ceremonial services of the tribe's medicine man.”
“It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.”

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