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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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"The green Party is like a watermelon - green on the outside and red on the inside." »Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R-Fullerton
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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 good conscience is a continual christmas." »Benjamin Franklin
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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 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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"A hedge between keeps friendship green." »German Proverb
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"My salad days, When I was green in judgment." »William Shakespeare
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When I was green in judgment." »William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 1 scene 5
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"Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green" »Anonymous
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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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"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." »Lenore Hershey
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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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"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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"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 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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"A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time." »Vince Lombardi
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"I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy." »Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series
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