# Quote — Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden

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

- Author: [Charles Dudley Warner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dudley-warner.md)
- Book: [My Summer in a Garden](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dudley-warner/my-summer-in-a-garden.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dudley-warner/my-summer-in-a-garden/what-small-potatoes

## More from this book

> Politics makes strange bedfellows.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dudley-warner/my-summer-in-a-garden/politics-makes-strange.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dudley-warner/my-summer-in-a-garden/to-own-a-bit.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dudley-warner/my-summer-in-a-garden/public-opinion-is-stronger.md)