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Its message of redemption, love, and the goodwill of the season has resonated with generation after generation, whether read, heard, or watched.Narrator: Marley was dead: to begin with… Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert. Dickens’s A Christmas Carol entered popular culture in 1843 and has not left it since. Bah Humbug and God bless us, everyone. Scrooge, thanks to the visitation by three ghosts, demonstrates that we can be better human beings if we choose to be, echoing Sartre’s famous adage: “we are our choices.” Here are some of the best and most famous quotes from Dickens’ immortal A Christmas Carol:The Best Quotes from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. The story endures because Dickens masterfully compressed many themes into this short novella about a very reprehensible miser named Scrooge: redemption/transformation, compassion/foregiveness, guilt/blame, poverty/wealth, misanthropy/philanthropy, the impact of personal choices, the importance of family and home, and lost love and love are as relevant today, particularly in a callous Trumpian world, as they were 174 years ago.

But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas-time, when it has come round-apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that-as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. He should! If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”Fred: “There are many things from which I might have derived good by which I have not profited, I dare say. 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. “What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.”Scrooge: “Bah! Humbug. “Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”Fred: “Come, then.

The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”The Ghost of Christmas Past: “The school is not quite deserted. The common welfare was my business charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. I made it link by link, and yard by yard.”The Ghost of Jacob Marley: “No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.’’The Ghost of Jacob Marley: “It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.”The Ghost of Jacob Marley: “Business! Mankind was my business. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”The Ghost of Jacob Marley: “I wear the chain I forged in life. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats.

What business had he to be married to the Princess!”Narrator: To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying and to see his heightened and excited face would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city, indeed.Belle: “Our contract is an old one. Poor boy! And Valentine,” said Scrooge, “and his wild brother, Orson there they go! And what’s his name, who was put down in his drawers, asleep, at the Gate of Damascus don’t you see him! And the Sultan’s Groom turned upside down by the Genii there he is upon his head! Serve him right. At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.Scrooge: “Why, it’s Ali Baba! It’s dear old honest Ali Baba! Yes, yes, I know! One Christmas time, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone, he did come, for the first time, just like that. It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks.

He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.”The Ghost of Christmas Present: “I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.”Scrooge: “Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?”The Ghost of Christmas Present: “Man, if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered what the surplus is, and where it is. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. God bless us!” : “God bless us every one!”Bob Cratchit: “ as good as gold and better. Cratchit: “A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. When it was made, you were another man.”Mrs.

But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Will you not speak to me?”Scrooge: “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”Narrator: It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that, while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.Scrooge: “Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. O God! to hear the insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”The Ghost of Christmas Present: “They are Man’s and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers.

A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”Narrator: Scrooge was better than his word. I am as giddy as a drunken man. Oh, Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!”Scrooge: “I don’t know what to do! I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. ‘The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.

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