My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #4 – …not being a man of strong imagination, he failed…

Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed.

Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol

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Previously:

• Even the blind men’s dogs
• A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone
• Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.