every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should…

Charles Dickens
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every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. ✨ Charles Dickens (1858). A Christmas Carol, p.5
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every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. ✨ Charles Dickens (1858). A Christmas Carol, p.5

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