 Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.  A Treasury of Table Talk - Página 76de Treasury - 1868 - 128 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Katharine Burrill - 1906 - 240 páginas
...all remember and all forget — " Annual income, twenty pounds ; annual expenditure, nineteen pounds nineteen six: result — Happiness. Annual income,...pounds; annual expenditure, twenty pounds ought and six : result—Misery." Micawber should have known, for no one suffered more than he did from the sixpence... | |
 | 1906 - 868 páginas
...between the right and wrong kind of balance. As that eminent financial expert, Mr. Micawber, puts it, 'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty poiinds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. ' "The present-day problem... | |
 | 1907 - 1012 páginas
..."Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, " nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence; result, "happiness. Annual income, twenty pounds;...''misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, "and, in short, you are for ever floored." The moral conveyed in this advice is even more necessary... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1909 - 236 páginas
...was grave for a minute or so. " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and — and in short you are for ever floored. As I am ! " To make his example the more impressive, Mr... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1910 - 868 páginas
...so. 164 David Copperfield " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, " you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and — and in short you are for ever floored. As I am ! " To make his example the more impressive, Mr.... | |
 | 1916 - 756 páginas
...between the right and wrong kind of balance. As that eminent financial expert, Mr. Micawber, puts it, ' Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.' The present-day problem has therefore three sides, being concerned with shortage of men, boys, and money.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1911 - 668 páginas
...was grave for a minute or so. " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and — and in short you are for ever floored. As I am!" To make his example the more impressive, Mr. Micawber... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1911 - 602 páginas
...was grave for a minute or so. "My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds 10 ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1912 - 258 páginas
...Dorrit, bk. ii, ch. viii. Money " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." — David Copperfield, ch. xii. My first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that... | |
 | 1912 - 756 páginas
...has been quoted before: "Annual income twenty pounds ; annual expenditure nineteen pounds sixpence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds ; annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and sixpence, result misery." An epitome of living on one's income, done in a paragraph. Thackeray, too,... | |
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