"All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing……" — Eugene Field
"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 slept with and dreamed over."
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20 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.
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Let my temptation be a book.
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Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the…
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Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
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Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
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All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing,…
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The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
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A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
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Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from…
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Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
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Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.
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How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher…
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