“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.”

—  Laura Ingalls Wilder

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks

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American children's writer, diarist, and journalist 1867–1957

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