“That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.”

—  Rose Wilder Lane

Written in 1935, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 2, by William V. Holtz (1993).

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