Thursday, 20 January 2022

The Micawber Principle or 'How to be happy!'

    Mr Micawber, a character in Charles Dicken's "David Copperfield" said the following.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, (almost twenty pounds) result happiness. 

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, (just over twenty pounds)result misery."

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