But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it ha…

Charles Dickens
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But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. ✨ Charles Dickens (1983). A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas, p.281, Library of Alexandria
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