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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
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"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."
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"A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin."
Time
"Home is the nicest word there is."
Home
"Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country."
Nation
"They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now."
Now
"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
Life
"Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind."
Tragedy
"Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell."
Work
"Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura."
Illness
"The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road."
Change
"Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word."
Uncertainty
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