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"I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day" »David Grayson
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"Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes." »Joan Winmill Brown
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"'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'" »Charles Dickens
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"At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." »Thomas Tusser
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"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." »Calvin Coolidge
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"Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved." »Augusta E. Rundell
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"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air." »W. T. Ellis
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"Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed Christmas night." »Garry Gamble
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"Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign." »Christina Georgina Rossetti
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"A turkey never voted for an early Christmas." »Irish Proverb
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year." »Charles Dickens
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"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." »Benjamin Franklin
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"A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world" »Charles Dickens
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"Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends." »Larry Wilde
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"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected." »Jimmy Cannon
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"...it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us" »Charles Dickens
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"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in." »Helen Hayes
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"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." »Lenore Hershey
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"'A merry Christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug'" »Charles Dickens
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"Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house." »Charles Dickens
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"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." »Washington Irving
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"Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months." »Oren Arnold
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"Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." »Oren Arnold
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"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." »Charles Dickens
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"The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung." »Phillips Brooks
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"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." »Charles Dickens
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"Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now" »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children." »Brian Sutton-Smith
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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it." »Richard Lamm
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"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely." »Charles Dickens
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