December 13, 2008

• The wise words of Scrooge’s nephew, Fred…..

  “There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest.  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 womenh 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.  And therefore, uncle, though it has not put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that is has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”

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