it's not my business, Scrooge returned. It's enough for a man to under…

Charles Dickens
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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. ✨ Charles Dickens (2011). A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories, p.22, Penguin
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