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| "I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry." | Scrooge |
| "It isn't that Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy . . .Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so insignificant. . ." | Scrooge |
| "There are many things from which I might have derived good by which I have not profited, I dare say." | Fred |
| "If he be like to die, he had better to it, and decrease the population." | Ghost of Christmas Present |
| "If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population." | Scrooge |
| "He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember, upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see." | Bob Cratchit |
| "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough." | Fred |
| "I see. I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way now. Merciful heaven, what is this?" | Scrooge |
| "The school is not quite deserted . . . a solitary child, neglected by his friends, is still left there." | Ghost of Christmas Past |
| "It matters little, to you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do I have no just cause to grieve." | Belle |
| "I see a vacant seat, in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved." | Ghost of Christmas Present |
| "I am not going to stand for this sort of thing any longer. And therefore, and therefore, I am about to raise your salary." | Scrooge |
| "Home, for good and all. Home, for ever and ever. Father is so much kinder than he used to be that home's like Heaven." | Fan |
| "I wear the chain I forged in life, I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it." | Marley |
| "They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want." | Ghost of Christmas Present |
| "God bless us, everyone." | Tiny Tim |
| "I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends." | Fred |
| "Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?" | Ghost of Christmas Past |
| "It's only once a year, sir. It shall not be repeated. I was making rather merry yesterday sir." | Bob Cratchit |
| "The Founder of the Feast, indeed! I wish I had him here. I'd give him a pice of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it." | Mrs. Cratchit |
| "I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him." | Fred |
| "Nothing, nothing. There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should have given him something, that's all." | Scrooge |
| "A small matter, to make these silly folks so full of gratitude . . . He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money - three or four perhaps." | Ghost of Christmas Past |
| "I fear you more than any specter I have seen." | Scrooge |
| "With a full heart, for the love of him you once were. May you be happy in the life you have chosen." | Belle |
