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 Guernsey Literary Festival commemorates Dickens
Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
Thu, 13th September 2012 - Sun, 16th September 2012
The Guernsey Literary Festival will be hosting an elegant dinner at the OGH Hotel on Friday 14 September to celebrate Dickens’s 200th birthday this year. The evening will start with a champagne reception then a three-course dinner and will feature two entertaining and informative speakers: Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, the author’s great-great-great granddaughter, as well as the highly regarded recreationalist Mark Wallis. Lucinda is a Patron of the Charles Dickens Museum, as well as being an acclaimed author, art historian and travel writer. Mark is the director of Past Pleasures, the largest and most experienced historical live interpretation events company in Britain. There will also be live musical entertainment, a raffle, the auction of an original Charles Dickens first edition novel and an exhibition of first edition Dickens novels organised by the Priaulx Library. Dress code is optional black tie or, for the more adventurous, classic Victorian dress or that of any Dickens character. For more information or to make a booking, please ring 07781 143545 or email festival@arts.gg.
