5 Literary Quotes to Celebrate National Cabbage Day!

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Dorothy L Sayers

Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage.

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Beatrix Potter

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

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H L Mencken

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

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Ken Follett

Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.

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Jean Giraudaux

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

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