Charles Reade Quotes
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Judicious absence is a weapon.
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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
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In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
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Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!
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What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?
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…even Christians loved one another at first starting.
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Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?
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Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
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Art is not imitation but illusion.
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The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.
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It must be confessed that a sort of halo of personal grandeur surrounds a great actress.
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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction