A Christmas Carol Key Quotations

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Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name, There it stood, for years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley
Ebenezer Scrooge
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He was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone (...) Hard and sharp as flint (...) solitary as an oyster.
Ebenezer Scrooge
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External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.
Ebenezer Scrooge
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Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ‘My dear Scrooge, how are you?
Ebenezer Scrooge
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'Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.'
Ebenezer Scrooge
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'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.'
Ebenezer Scrooge
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I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
Ebeneezer Scrooge
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'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.'
Ebenezer Scrooge
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'Remember it,' cried Scrooge, 'I could walk it blindfold.'
Ebenezer Scrooge
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'Why, it's Ali Baba,' cried Scrooge in ecstasy, 'It's dear old honest Ali Baba.'
Ebenezer Scrooge
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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.
Ebenezer Scrooge
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'Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life.'
Ebenezer Scrooge
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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.'
Ebenezer Scrooge
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Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Marley
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'I wear the chain i forged in life.'
Marley
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'In life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me!'
Marley
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'No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.'
Marley
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'Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused! Yet such was I! Oh! Such was I!'
Marley
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'Without their visits,' said the ghost, 'you cannot hope to shun the path I tread.'
Marley
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The air was filled with phantoms (...) Every one of them wore chains like Marley's ghost, (...) none were free.
Marley
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'A Merry Christmas Uncle! God save you!'
Fred
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His face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled
Fred
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'Don't be angry Uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.'
Fred
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'I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot w be friends?'
Fred
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'Because I fell in love.'
Fred
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'I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute.'
Fred
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I will keep my Christmas humour to the last.
Fred
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His nephew left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding.
Fred
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The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded.
Bob
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'Mr Scrooge,' said Bob; 'I'll give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast.'
Bob
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Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame.
Tiny Tim
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'God bless us everyone,' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
Tiny tim
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