Charles Dickens
Novelist
"I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me."
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Scrooge
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Charles Dickens
Novelist
"it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning"
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"Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business."
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"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change."
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"Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it."
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"Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son."
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