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I couldn't find the original quote, but if I can paraphrase it: Spend two pence less than you make and you'll be content, maybe even happy. Spend two pence mo
by kleevr 16y ago
I couldn't find the original quote, but if I can paraphrase it:
Spend two pence less than you make and you'll be content, maybe even happy. Spend two pence more than you make and you'll be miserable.
- whatusername 16y agoWilkins Micawber -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkins_Micawber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkins_Micawber (A character in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield) "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."