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Quotes from My Summer in a Garden — Charles Dudley Warner

1829–1900 United States

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What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

The toad, without which no garden would be complete.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Dudley Warner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.