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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Lucinda Dickens Hawksley talks Charles Dickens
Wanstead Library, London
16 December 2011
Lucinda Dickens Hawksley will be signing copies of her new illustrated biography of Charles Dickens published by Andre Deutsch. She will also be giving a talk. Contact vivian@newhambooks.co.uk for more information.
