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 Modern

Victorian novelist

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David Copperfield

Date / Period

1850

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/766/766-h/766-h.htm

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