John Mccarthy

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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: christmas

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“Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: christmas-carol, laugh

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“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: hypocrisy, zealots

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