Great oaks from little acorns grow
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Great oaks from little acorns grow, but great novels seldom grow from small potatoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Great oaks from little acorns grow; and you can never tell the eminent position to which the little bare-footed, ragged boy may climb if he has good luck.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by Devol, George H.
"Great oaks from little acorns grow," you know.
From Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks by Farinholt-Jones, May
The old saw has it, "Great oaks from little acorns grow," and all of us who remember the saying have thus some idea of what the beginning of an oak is.
From Getting Acquainted with the Trees by McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace)
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