“ Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em. ”
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful, to make the most of what we have, to be happy with simple pleasures, and have courage when things go wrong.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan. It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob.Sometimes Mary let Laura hold Nettie, but she only did it when Susan couldn't see.
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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.
