Eugene Field
Author, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
"Yet there have been, and there still are, many who take a seeming
delight in telling you how many conquests they have made, and they not
infrequently have the bad taste to explain with wearisome prolixity the ways
and the means whereby those conquests were wrought; as, forsooth, an
unfeeling huntsman is forever boasting of the game he has slaughtered and is
forever dilating upon the repulsive details of his butcheries."
- The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
“The best anglers in the world are those who do not catch fish; the mere
slaughter of fish is simply brutal….”
- The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac