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


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C NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Expenditure rises to meet income.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Absolutely this is an annual event.
DENNIS CRAWFORD I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
JO WALTON Where annual elections end, there slavery begins
JOHN ADAMS Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Wednesday's annual Budget could be Brown's last.
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DENNIS YAW Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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ROBERT OWEN We hope this will be an annual event.
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RALPH PARLETTE can articulate why we need annual review for this treaty.
JAMES HOFFA I'd love to see this become an annual tradition.
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UNKNOWN It's just very simply part of our annual rate filing.
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MA KAI This was the third annual and the largest we've seen yet.
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CHARLES DICKENS Please, sir, I want some more.
CHARLES DICKENS Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
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BRAD YOUNG As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
GEORGE CARLIN What's clear is that the annual numbers are fine for the Xbox,
CHARLES DI BONA If this goes over well, we'll probably make this an annual event.
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COLIN MCADIE Our annual fundraising drives average about $5,000 per year, so this is major.
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JENS SCHATTNER We've been planning to do something since we came (to Roseworth) in nineteen-ninety-six.
CHRIS PRATT We have an annual district inspection and a five-year thorough inspection with the Corps.
MILES WALDRON The emphasis of the 12th annual MTV Europe Music Awards is on spectacular live performance.
BRENT HANSEN We will continue to drive for at least 10 to 12 percent annual earnings growth.
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CLARE MORRIS The annual percentage increase in house prices nationally in 2005 was the smallest for 10 years.
MARTIN ELLIS They found it in doing my annual mammogram. But it was small, less than 1 centimeter.
KAREN BLAIR Last year was the first annual decline [in revenue] since I came on board in 1991.
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CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS