Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

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He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.