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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Great Expectations - National Tour 2012 - Cumbria
Coronation Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria
Thu, 22nd March 2012 - Thu, 22nd March 2012
Baroque Theatre Company presents 'Great Expectations', a stunning theatrical experience, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth. Young Philip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, helps the escaped convict Abel Magwitch and sets in motion a train of events that will affect his entire young life. Taken under the wing of the eccentric Miss Havisham, Pip falls in love with her ward, the chilly Estella, and determines to be a gentleman. Receiving money from a mysterious source, and expecting more, Pip renounces his humble past life and feels sure he will achieve his aim – and then the true identity of his benefactor is revealed and a painful process of moral education begins for Pip. Bringing to life all the vivid characters of the original and conveying the story with great clarity, atmosphere and theatrical flair, this production of Charles Dickens’s most popular novel will be exciting and haunting.
