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  1. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    You wish to be anonymous?" "I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned--they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there." "Many can't go there; and many would rather die." "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
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  2. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!
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  3. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
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  4. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
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  5. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
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  6. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
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  7. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?
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  8. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!
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  9. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
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  10. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
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  11. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.
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  12. Charles Dickens _ A Christmas Carol

    And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that {Christmas} has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
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