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Reminds me of Dickens: "Mr Micawber's famous, and oft-quoted, recipe for happiness: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] ninetee
by GFischer 12y ago
Reminds me of Dickens:
"Mr Micawber's famous, and oft-quoted, recipe for happiness:
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/9066005/What-Charles-Dickens-said-about-money-12-memorable-quotes.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/9066005/W...
Edit: didn't only remember of it myself, bradshaw1965 beat me to it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8232898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8232898