Human Joys Quotes by Eugene Field

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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…
• 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…
• 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…

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