You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of ch…

Charles Dickens
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You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are! ✨ A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)
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You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are! ✨ A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

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