English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)
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. »
...it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keepChristmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us »
Once upon a time--of all the gooddays in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. »