My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #22 – Too much getting up by candlelight…

There was an earthly savour in the air, a chilly bareness in the place, which associated itself somehow with too much getting up by candle-light, and not too much to eat.

Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol

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Previously:

• The school is not quite deserted…
• “What”, exclaimed the Ghost…
• The First Ghost
• Mankind was my business…
• Speak comfort to me
• It is a ponderous chain!
• There’s more of gravy than of grave about you…
• Ask me who I was…
• The chain Marley drew…
• …double locked himself in…
• Darkness is cheap…
• Marley’s Face
• He lived in chambers…
• …even more congenial frost.
• …decrease the surplus population…
• …open their shut-up hearts freely…
• Boiled with his own pudding…
• …not being a man of strong imagination, he failed…
• Even the blind men’s dogs
• A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone
• Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.