A Christmas Carol

“Marley was dead: to begin with.”

“Hard and sharp as flint.”

“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

“I wear the chain I forged in life.”

“Another idol has displaced me, a golden one.”

“A solitary child, neglected by his friends.”

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both.”

“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

“The Founder of the Feast!”

“On the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE.”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.”

“God bless Us, Every One!”