It's getting down to the Scrooge vs. Tiny Tim time of year. Some quotes today from
Charles Dickens seem in order.
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.
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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 the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
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Dickens' A Christmas Carol was the first of his books I ever read, aged about 11 or 12. I still read it occasionally at Christmas, and will be doing so again this year (I need some respite from Cybil nominations !)
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