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Eugene Field quotes: He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

Eugene Field quotes: Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

Eugene Field quotes: I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

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 quotes: A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

Eugene Field quotes: 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

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

Eugene Field quotes: There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,
A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

Eugene Field quotes: 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.

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 quotes: He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

Eugene Field quotes: Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

Eugene Field quotes: Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

Eugene Field quotes: But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

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 quotes: When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

Eugene Field quotes: Let my temptation be a book.

Let my temptation be a book.

Eugene Field quotes: Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

Eugene Field quotes: The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Eugene Field quotes: Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

Eugene Field quotes: Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

Eugene Field quotes: Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one nightSailed off in a wooden shoe, -Sailed on a river of crystal lightInto a sea of dew.

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 quotes: The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

Eugene Field quotes: No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Eugene Field quotes: 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.

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.