“There are many things from which I might have derived good,
by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am
sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from
the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it
can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant
time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and
women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of
people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and
not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, though it
has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done
me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!” – Fred, from A
Christmas Carol
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