Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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British Council 'Dickens 2012' festival in Phillipines
Rizal Park, Manila (Phillipines)
December 2011
The Philippines are hosting a very special Dickensian Christmas event with film screenings of Nicholas Nickleby (2003), A Tale of Two Cities (1958), Great Expectations (1946) and of course A Christmas Carol (1951). The films will be screened to a large open-air audience at Rizal Park in Manila, the largest urban park in Asia. This will celebrate two great birthdays in 2011 and 2012: Charles Dickens and Philippine national hero Jose Rizal.
