“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”

—  Laura Ingalls Wilder

"A Bouquet of Wild Flowers", article published in the Missouri Ruralist (20 July 1917)

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

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