A Christmas Tradition

Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol

first edition, 1843

" I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book,

to raise the Ghost of an idea, which shall not

put my readers out of humour with themselves,

with each other, with the season, or with me.

May it haunt their houses pleasantly,

and no one wish to lay it."

" I will honor Christmas in my heart,

and try to keep it all the year!"

~Scrooge

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"My dear children, I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to know about Him."

-Charles Dickens