Eugene Field Quotes

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• He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.
• Let my temptation be a book.
• Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
• Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
• Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
• All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got…
• The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
• A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
• Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
• Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
• Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.
• How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the…
• I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the…
• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.
• All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been…
• Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew.…
• No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
• Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding…
• But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share…
• He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

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