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When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a ...more

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It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of...more

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Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

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Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!‘I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!’ Scrooge repeated,...more

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There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest....more

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Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little...more

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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

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My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.

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A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn...more

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In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

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To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

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And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying d...more