“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
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