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. ↗

— Eugene Field

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

— Eugene Field

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

— Eugene Field

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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

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