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A Christmas Carol quotes

Charles Dickens

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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“I wear the chain I forged in life . . . I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“If I could work my will . . . every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten!” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“It is required of every man . . . that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“There are some upon this earth of yours . . . who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had...” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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