Charles Dickens

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"'A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah!' said Scrooge. 'Humbug!'"	Religion
"'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'"	Ability, Choice, Darkness
"'Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!'"	Age, Art, Money
"...it was always said of him [Scrooge] that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!"	Knowledge, Life, Men
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."	Art, Honesty, Knowledge
"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!"	Happiness, Joy, Religion
"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."	Evil, Men
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, 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."	Ability, Art, Evil
"By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves."	Learning, Life, Time
"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks."	Age, Beauty, Excellence
"God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all."	Prayer
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!"	Christmas
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."	Art
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."	Art
"I have always thought of Christmas time 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."	Christmas
"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it."	Evil, Good, Honesty
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time..."	Determination, Habits, Persistence
"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."	Freedom, Liberty, Lies
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year."	Art, Glory, Honor
"If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig."	Miscellaneous
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