"But he who truly loves books loves all……" — Eugene Field
"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 with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!"
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Eugene Field
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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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