# Charles Dudley Warner

- Quotes: 12
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dudley-warner

## Books

- [My Summer in a Garden](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dudley-warner/my-summer-in-a-garden.md) — 12 quotes

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> Politics makes strange bedfellows.

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> 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.

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

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

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

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> 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.

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> The toad, without which no garden would be complete.

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> 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.

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

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

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> The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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

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