Greed and generosity

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Character

Stave

“And even Scrooge was not dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.”

Narrator

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“Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names: it was all the same to him.”

Narrator

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“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’”

Narrator

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“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”

Narrator

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“The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.”

Narrator

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“He carried his own low temperature always about him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.”

Narrator

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“To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call ‘nuts’ to Scrooge.”

Narrator

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“Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.”

Narrator

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”What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.”

Bob

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“Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”

Scrooge

1

“I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.”

Scrooge

1

“‘If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.’”

Scrooge

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“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”

Narrator

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“It is a ponderous chain!”

Marley

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“‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.”

Scrooge

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