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-A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

-A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

-All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

-All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

-Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

-Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

-Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

-Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

-Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

-He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

-How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

-Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

-No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

-Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

-The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

-The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

-True friends stab you in the front.

-Who, being loved, is poor?

-Work is the curse of the drinking classes.