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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Miss Havisham's Fire (Argento Celebration)
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, USA
Sat, 21st April 2012 - Sun, 29th April 2012
The tribute continues with Argento's opera based on Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, subtitled "Being an investigation into the unusual and violent death of Aurelia Havisham on the 17 of April in the year 1860". Miss Havisham lives for 50 years in the seclusion of her home, and dies when her wedding gown, which she has never removed since she was jilted by her fiancé, catches fire. Past and present merge in a series of flashbacks that reveal the dark relationships Miss Havisham had with her adopted daughter Estella, and the orphan Pip. The performance features soprano Linda Mabbs in the role of Miss Havisham, a role she sang in the world-premiere recording of Miss Havisham's Fire. The performances run 21, 25 and 27 April at 7.30pm and 29 April at 3pm. Tickets are $35 / $9 (Students/Youth).
