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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
All truth is not to be told at all times.