Charles Dickens on the Federal Budget

Wilkins Micawber, character in Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield". The illustrator is unidentified, but the picture appeared in the book's 1912 edition

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

The Micawber Principle, Wilkins Micawber in Charles Dickens’ 1850 novel David Copperfield.

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