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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Rochester, UK
June 2012
Charles Dickens spent five of his childhood years in Medway from 1817 to 1822 and the Rochester area was the inspiration for many of Dickens's greatest works. He was a national legend when he returned for the last 13 years of his life, dying at Gad's Hill in 1870. This annual festival has evolved over the years to become what it is today - a spectacular event of colour, costume and entertainment. Thousands of visitors soak up the Victorian atmosphere, while parades make their way through central Rochester each day.
The Dickens Festival's unique combination of music, dance, drama and street theatre has rightly earned it a place in the south-east tourism calendar as one of the key events of the summer.
