"Oh But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster."
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone " "It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One "Related Subjects
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