Quotes by Eugene Field - Page 1

Let my temptation be a book.
Eugene Field / Writer
Inspirational
Book
Temptation
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Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.
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Air
Book
Perfume
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The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!
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Apple Pie
Apples
Pie
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The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
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Caught
Fishes
Fishing
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Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
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Book
Temptation
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A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Eugene Field / Writer
Men
Poetry
Sausage
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Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
Eugene Field / Writer
Girl
Baby
Lungs
Pairs
Bald
Composed
Pair
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No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
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Appreciated
Book
Book Lover
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Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?
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Letters
Maidens
Village
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He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.
Eugene Field / Writer
Baby
Mean
Sarcastic
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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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Congress
Jail
Statesmen
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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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Father
Mother
Names
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He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.
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Apprehension
Momentary
Ace
Played
Though
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There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.
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Candor
Honest
Wine
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I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
Eugene Field / Writer
Lakes
Rivers
Sea
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But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.
Eugene Field / Writer
Food
Blessed
Night
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When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"
Eugene Field / Writer
Bird
Hot
Wine
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Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Eugene Field / Writer
Kings
Fear
Evening
Play
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Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.
Eugene Field / Writer
Light
Night
Sea
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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 it
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Heaven
Joy
Wings
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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 hall.
Eugene Field / Writer
Boys
Drinking
Fall
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What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.
Eugene Field / Writer
Men
Smell
Smoking
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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.
Eugene Field / Writer
Birth
Human Thought
Ideas
Immediacy
Instant
Monstrous
Pendulums
Extreme
Came
Explosive
Pendulum
Swinging
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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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Book
Practice
Reading
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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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Men
Book
Passion
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Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.
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Games
Thinking
Years
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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 poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.
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Christmas
Girl
Smile
Boys
House
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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 forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
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Book
Cheer
Years
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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. "Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three. "We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea. Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.
Eugene Field / Writer
Beautiful
Moon
Night
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