A Christmas carol

• “As solitary as an oyster.”
• “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.” 
• “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” 
• “Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.” 
• “Mankind was my business.” 
•  “Another idol has displaced me.”  
• “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want
• “Marley was dead.”
• ‘Mankind was my business
• His wealth is of no use to him
• his sole friend, and sole mourner
• “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
• a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone
• a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”
• “Bah,” said Scrooge, “Humbug.”
• “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
• God bless Us, Every One!”
• Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.
• he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone,
• Hard and sharp as flint
• secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster
• cold within him froze his old features,
• A frosty rime was on his head,
• Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”
• I can’t afford to make idle people merry.”