Micawber Principle Definition
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The claim that something good will turn up, especially when used to justify optimism.
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The claim that financial surplus is success and debt is failure.
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Micawber principlesOrigin of Micawber Principle
From the Dickens character Wilkins Micawber , noted for his inability to work his way out of poverty. Two of his enunciations have become elevated to "principles": * "Something will turn up." * "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."
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