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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British Library, London (UK)
Sun, 22nd January 2012 - Sun, 22nd January 2012
Celebrate the beginning of Dickens’s bicentenary year with a fantastic ensemble of writers, musicians, magicians and very special readers including writers Louis de Bernières, A S Byatt and Charles Dickens’s great great great granddaughter Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, actor Anna Maxwell Martin, comedian Arthur Smith, Tweedy the clown and magician Paul Zenon. Hosted by Christopher Green and music hall legend Ida Barr. From the 1840s onward Charles Dickens travelled far and wide giving readings. Priced at a penny, so that the most people could attend, they entertained huge and enthusiastic audiences. Join us for a fabulous and fun revival of the tradition – all for just one penny! Presented in association with Vintage Classics and The Reader Organisation. The Reader Organisation have coordinated the unmissable Penny Readings in Liverpool for the past eight years and this year, as they expand their Get Into Reading project across the city, they bring the event to London for the very first time. Entrance one penny (collected on the day). From 2 - 4.30pm. Booking essential.
