greed

• 'oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous old sinner'
• ''another idol has displaced me... a golden one''
• ''this boy is Ignorance. this girl is Want. beware them both and all 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''
• ''ha ha! laughed the same woman when old joe, producing a flannel bag with money in it, told out their several gains upon the ground'
• ''what's christmas to you but a time for paying bills without money, a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer?''
• ''a small matter' said the ghost 'to make these silly folks so full of gratitude'