Charles Reade

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Charles Reade (June 8, 1814 - April 11, 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist.

Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Christie Johnstone (1853) 1.2 Peg Woffington (1853) 1.3 The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) 2 Attributed 3 External links

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Christie Johnstone (1853)

• 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.
  • CHAPTER I.

• What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?
  • CHAPTER I

• Art is not imitation but illusion.
  • CHAPTER XII.

Peg Woffington (1853)

• 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
  • CHAPTER I

• In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
  • CHAPTER I

• It must be confessed that a sort of halo of personal grandeur surrounds a great actress.
  • CHAPTER I

The Cloister and the Hearth (1861)

• Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.
  • CHAPTER I

• …even Christians loved one another at first starting.
  • CHAPTER I

• Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?
  • CHAPTER V

Attributed

• Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
  • Possibly a misattribution, it appears in Youth and Sex by Mary Scharlieb and F. Arthur Sibly (ISBN 1414250800)[1] as well as The Power of Womanhood by Ellice Hopkins (ISBN 1421956128)[2]

External links

• Works by Charles Reade at Project Gutenber

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