a Christmas carol

• are there no prisons?
• i don't make merry myself at Christmas, and i cant afford to make idle people merry
• "if they would rather die" said scrooge "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. "
• i wear the chain i forged in life
• no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse
• mankind was my business
• the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever
• would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?
• i should like to have given him something: thats all
• he has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil
• the happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune
• another idol has displaced me
• i have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. have i not?
• it was made when we were both poor and content to be so
• i was a boy
• you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by gain
• the joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy!
• "why to a poor one most?" asked scrooge.

  "because it needs it most."
• it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
• nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family
• a place where miners live who labour in the bowels of the earth
• his offences carry their own punishment
• they are mans
• i don't mind going if a lunch is provided
• every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did!
• for the sake of anything he might be able to do for us, so much for his kind way,
• i am not the man i was
• i am as light as a feather, i am as happy as an angel, i am as merry as a school-boy. i am as giddy as a drunken man
• ill raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family,
• he did it all, and infinitely more;
• he became as good a friend, as good a master
• his own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him
• tiny tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!