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Quotation from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
David Copperfield, Ch. 12 (1850 first volume edition)
Micawber's advice to David before leaving London, a precept he never follows.
Citation: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery" — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Ch. 12 (1850 first volume edition). (id david-copperfield-q3)
Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.
