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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Charles Dickens and the Supernatural - A Christmas Carol and the Conjuror
Conference Centre, British Library (London, UK)
Fri, 9th December 2011 - Sat, 10th December 2011
Christmas is a time for telling ghost stories and enjoying magic. Charles Dickens summoned up the best seasonal spooks and he was also a gifted amateur magician. Writer and broadcaster, Brian Sibley evokes literary illusions from some of Dickens's best loved stories while David Weeks of The Magic Circle presents interludes of bewildering bafflement out of the Victorian conjuror's box of tricks. Friday 9 December 18.30 – 20.00 and repeated on Saturday 10 December 14.30 - 16.00. Suitable for all aged 8 and above. This event is part of the
