“"It should be Christmas Day, I am sure," said she, "on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr Scrooge.”
“Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!”
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Isolation
“Solitary as an oyster.”
"The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."
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Transformation
“No warmth could warm him, no wintry weather chill him.”
“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
“I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.”
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Poverty
“Dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons”.
“Many thousands are in want of common necessaries”.
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both”.
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Family
“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
“He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew”
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Memory and the Past
"Remember it!" cried Scrooge with fervour; "I could walk it blindfold."
"I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!”
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Guilt and Blame
“The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever."
“Mankind was my business.”
“If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
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