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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Celebrating Dickens at Words by the Water: Ruth Richardson
Keswick, UK
Sun, 4th March 2012 - Sun, 4th March 2012
Discuss with author Ruth Richardson the story, plot and characters of 'Oliver Twist' and discover along the way how Dickens was influenced by the characters and places that surrounded him when he wrote it.
