Eugene Field Quotes

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.

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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

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The gingham dog and the calico cat, Side by side on the table sat

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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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She is continuing a tradition

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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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