More from Charles Dickens

  1. Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
  2. I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.
  3. But charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
  4. 'Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.' 'Come, then,' returned the nephew…
  5. Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it.
  6. 'Why do you doubt your senses?' [asks Marley's Ghost] 'Because,' said Scrooge, 'a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stoma…
  7. Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
  8. 'You are fettered,' said Scrooge, trembling. 'Tell me why?' 'I wear the chain I forged in life,' replied the Ghost. 'I made it link by link…

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