I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.