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My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #2 – A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone

Posted on November 6, 2014 by dewelch

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Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol

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  • Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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