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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Chapter One. I Am Born: 200 Years of Charles Dickens
Dunedin City Library, Dunedin, New Zealand
Thu, 9th February 2012 - Sun, 6th May 2012
The latest exhibition of the Dunedin Public Libraries commemorates the birth and legacy of famed Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. First and early editions of Dickens’s works, some of which in their original monthly parts, take centre stage. Important features of the exhibition are the original letters by Dickens and the surviving manuscript fragment of his short story 'Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings'. Dickens’s life and writings have inspired countless biographies and scholarly works, and a selection from the nineteenth century to the present day is displayed. Rounding out the exhibition will be a range of secondary material demonstrating how Dickens’s legacy has been conveyed in popular and literary culture, and ephemera from the former Dunedin Dickens Fellowship.
