- I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. »
- Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all. »
- Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see. »
- There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart. »
- Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. »
- We need never be ashamed of our tears. »
- With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. »
- By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. »
- In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. »
- Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. »
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