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
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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen…”
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Work
- David Copperfield
- Year
- 1850
- Chapter / part
- Chapter 12
- Length
- 25 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #766
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