Christmas carol quotes

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CHRISTMAS
“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune “ “In honour of it being christmas eve and then ran home”
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FAMILY
“Tiny Tim rode upon his shoulders” “Bob held his withered little hand in his [...] and dreaded that he might be taken from him” “A solitary child neglected by his friends”
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FORGIVENESS AND COMPASSION
“Therefore I am about to raise your salary!” “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew”
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SOCIAL JUSTICE AND POVERTY
“Are there no prisons [...] are there no workhouses” “They had better do it and decrease the surplus population” “The clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal”
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REDEMPTION AND TRANSFORMATION
“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him” - scrooge “I learnt a lesson which is working now” “I am not the man i was” “But if the courses be departed on, the ends will change”
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ISOLATION
“Closed the window” - scrooge “Solitary as an oyster” “A solitary child neglected by his friends”
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GUILT AND BLAME
“Are there no prisons [...] are there no workhouses” - scrooge “Dreaded that he might be taken away from him”
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MARELY
“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!” “Cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel” “My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money changing hole”
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SCROOGE
“He carried his own low temperature around with him” “No more [...] show me no more” Semantic field of learning “conduct” “learn” “lesson” “teach” “Stake of holly through his heart” use of comedy draws us towards him “Scrooge never painted out Old M
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BOB CRATCHIT
“Tiny Tim rode upon his shoulders” “Bob held his withered little hand in his [...] and dreaded that he might be taken from him” “Tried to warm himself at the candle”
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FRED
“What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.” “I have always thought of Christmas as a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time” “Scrooge’s offences carry their own punishment. Who suffers? Himself!” His laughter “irresistib
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LITTLE FAN
“I have come to bring you home dear brother.. Home, home, home!” “You are quite a woman, little Fan”
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BELLE
“Another idol has displaced me.. a golden one” “May you be happy in the life you have chosen” “No more! Show me no more!” Her family is full of “joy and gratitude”
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FEZZIWIG
“Bless his heart; it’s Fezziwig alive again!” “Yo ho there! Ebenezer! ****! No more work tonight!” “The happiness he gives, is..as if it cost a fortune
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CHRISTMAS PAST
“Like a child: yet not so much like a child as like an old man” juxtaposition shows how we are a product of out past and future which builds and shapes us “Extinguisher cap” cuts out all of Scrooge's emotions but still hope of light shines through “B
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CHRISTMAS PRESENT
“A jolly giant who bore a glowing torch with a cheery voice and a joyful air” “Crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy" “Are there no prisons [...] are there no workhouses”
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CHRISTMAS YET TO COME
“A solemn phantom” “Shrouded in deep black garment which, concealed its head, its face its form” “A churchyard, overrun by weeds, the growth of vegetation’s death not life –a worthy place!”
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IGNORANCE AND WANT
“They are Man’s. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware for I see that written which is Doom.” Ignorance and want “they are mans”
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Card 2

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“Tiny Tim rode upon his shoulders” “Bob held his withered little hand in his [...] and dreaded that he might be taken from him” “A solitary child neglected by his friends”

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FAMILY

Card 3

Front

“Therefore I am about to raise your salary!” “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew”

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Card 4

Front

“Are there no prisons [...] are there no workhouses” “They had better do it and decrease the surplus population” “The clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal”

Back

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Card 5

Front

“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him” - scrooge “I learnt a lesson which is working now” “I am not the man i was” “But if the courses be departed on, the ends will change”

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