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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

Money Advice Motivational Debt Frugality Dickens Micawber Income Copperfield Pecuniary

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little N

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Witty Wilde Dickens Victorian Uncle Tom S Cabin

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Dickens

Humor Funny Lie Dickens Witness Courtroom

And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because,

And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces and prisons, she helps to inculcate the lesson that the wheel of Time is rolling for an end, and that the world is, in all great essentials, better, gentler, more forbearing, and more hopeful, as it rolls!

Charles Dickens

Time Dickens Italy

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; t

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off.The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay

Charles Dickens

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