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Quotations for Scrooge’s changing character

‘Miserable and cold is the weather. But not so bleak, not so miserable and not so
cold as the man who sits within.’ (p3)

‘Hang your Tim, for all I care.’ (p4)

‘Hard and sharp as flint from which no steel ever struck warming fire’ (p5)

‘no one every stopped Scrooge in the street with a “My dear Scrooge, how are
you? Will you come and see me? (p5)

‘all this satisfied Scrooge, for now he could be alone with his money’ (p5)

‘Surely, a thing can do us good without us making money from it’ (p7)

‘And if they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus
population’ (p11)

‘It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among
his fellow men. And if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to so after
death’ (p15)

‘I wear the chain I forged in life’ (p15)

‘that poor wretch’ (p17)

‘a solitary child abandoned by his father’ (p22)

‘your father never forgave you, for living while your mother died giving birth to
you.’ (p22)

‘she was the only one you ever loved’ (p29)

‘spirit, show me no more. Why do you delight to torture me? (p30)

‘There Scrooge sat alone. Quite alone in the world.’ (p31)

‘Spirit, tell me if Tiny Tim will live.’ (p39)

‘I hope to live a better man.’ (p52)

‘he didn’t have a friend in the world’ (p54)

‘I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I would have been’ (p57)

‘Show me I may have hope’ (p57)

‘I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will not shut
the lessons you have taught me’ (p58)

‘I’m as light as a feather’ (p59)

‘He became as good a man as the good old City knew’ (p67)

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