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Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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  1. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ Farmer Boy

    all the land our forefathers had was a little strip of country, here between the mountains and the ocean. All the way from here west was Indian country, and Spanish and French and English country. It was farmers that took all that country and made it America." "How?" Almanzo asked. "Well, son, the Spaniards were soldiers, and high-and-mighty gentlemen that only wanted gold. And the French were fur-traders, wanting to make quick money. And England was busy fighting wars. But we were farmers, son; we wanted the land. It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung on to their farms.
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  2. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ Farmer Boy

    He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star
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  3. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ Farmer Boy

    There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.
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  4. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ Little House in the Big Woods

    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. And that was the last of the little house.
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  5. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ These Happy Golden Years

    I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. {Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading laws}
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  6. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ The Long Winter

    Then the sun peeped over the edge of the prairie and the whole world glittered. Every tiniest thing glittered rosy toward the sun and pale blue toward the sky, and all along every blade of grass ran rainbow sparkles.
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  7. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ Little House in the Big Woods

    Where's my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?
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  8. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ These Happy Golden Years

    So to the end when life's dim shadows fall, Love will be found the sweetest song of all.
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  9. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ These Happy Golden Years

    God hates a coward."I don't actually believe this is true. But it's something to aim for.
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  10. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ Farmer Boy

    Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.
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  11. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ Farmer Boy

    It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder
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  12. Laura Ingalls Wilder _ Little House in the Big Woods

    They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire."
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