'Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'
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Card 7
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I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
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Card 8
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'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.'
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Card 9
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'Remember it,' cried Scrooge, 'I could walk it blindfold.'
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Card 10
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'Why, it's Ali Baba,' cried Scrooge in ecstasy, 'It's dear old honest Ali Baba.'
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Card 11
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Then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his former self, 'Poor boy,' and cried again.
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Card 12
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'Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life.'
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Card 13
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'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year. I will live in the past, present and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.'
