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It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of...more

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport t...more

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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

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Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

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The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her...more

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Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!‘I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!’ Scrooge repeated,...more

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There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest....more

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He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned b...more

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Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little...more

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

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My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with m...more

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It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in ...more