Lessons for Ebenezer Scrooge
Spirit of Christmas Past: “And as your business prospered, Ebenezer Scrooge, a golden idol took possession of your heart, as Alice said it would.”
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Ebenezer: “I suppose you’ll be wanting the whole day tomorrow.”
Bob Cratchit: “If quite convenient, sir.”
Ebenezer: “Every Christmas you say the same thing. And every Christmas it’s just as inconvenient as the Christmas before. Good night.”
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Jacob Marley: “In life, my spirit never rose beyond the limits of our money-changing holes! Now I am doomed to wander without rest or peace, incessant torture and remorse!”
Ebenezer: ” But it was only that you were a good man of business, Jacob!”
Jacob Marley: “BUSINESS? Mankind was my business! Their common welfare was my business! And it is at this time of the rolling year that I suffer most!”
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Spirit of Christmas Present: “My time with you is at an end, Ebenezer Scrooge. Will you profit from what I’ve shown you of the good in most men’s hearts?”
Ebenezer: “I don’t know, how can I promise!”
Spirit of Christmas Present: “If it’s too hard a lesson for you to learn, then learn this lesson!”
[opens his robe, revealing two starving children]
Ebenezer: [shocked] “Spirit, are these yours?”
Spirit of Christmas Present: “They are Man’s. This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
Ebenezer: “But have they no refuge, no resource?”
Spirit of Christmas Present: [quoting Scrooge] “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
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Tiny Tim: “God bless us, every one!”
*From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens