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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

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it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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We forge the chains we wear in life.

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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

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A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

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An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

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And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

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He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

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When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

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And it was always said of him, 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! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

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Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

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We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

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I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

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She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

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