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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Dickens on the Thames: A Literary Boat Trip
River Thames, London (UK)
Sat, 5th May 2012 - Sat, 5th May 2012
Spend an afternoon boating down the Thames, discovering Dickens’s London and the river at its heart. From Embankment Pier to Greenwich and back, experts Alex Werner and Tony Williams (co-authors of Dickens’s Victorian London) will uncover the key sights of the author’s life and works – from the blacking factory where he worked as a boy to the Limehouse pub in 'Our Mutual Friend'.
