"Let my temptation be a book." — Eugene Field

"Let my temptation be a book."

— Eugene Field

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20 Quotes by Eugene Field

Eugene Field has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the…
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,…
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…
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…
I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in…

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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