Friday, December 24

.. it is Christmas again!

This is one profound statement about Christmas that I read every Christmas. This statement is from 'A Christmas Carol' (Charles Dickens).  

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew. 
“Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come roundapart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from thatas 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, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. 
And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”

(As  spoken by the nephew of uncle Scrooge)   

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