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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The Day Parliament Burned Down - Lunchtime talk
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Sunderland (UK)
Tue, 20th March 2012 - Tue, 20th March 2012
In 1834, Dickens had just started his career as a Parliamentary reporter for the Morning Chronicle. Two months into his new job, the Houses of Parliament burnt down - a shattering event which he later used in his journalism, fiction and in his public lectures. This talk by Caroline Shenton, Clerk of the Records at the Parliamentary Archives, and author of 'The Day Parliament Burned Down', due to be published in September by OUP, will tell the story of this forgotten disaster, one that changed the shape of London and England forever.
