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“God bless us, every one!”
Meaning & context
Tiny Tim’s blessing widens goodwill beyond one household and turns a family scene into an inclusive wish for others.
Source details
A Christmas Carol; Tiny Tim’s blessing.
A Christmas Carol Quotes by Charles Dickens: Context & Meanings
3 quotations linked to A Christmas Carol by or associated with Charles Dickens, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
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Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol
Topics and ideas
Generosity, goodwill, laughter, Christmas, moral change, family feeling and the social widening of Scrooge’s attention after the supernatural visitations.
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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Meaning & context
Christmas becomes a year-round ethic of generosity and attention rather than a mood confined to one date.
Source details
A Christmas Carol, Stave Five.
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“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
Meaning & context
Dickens treats good humor as socially contagious, capable of spreading through a room much like a mood.
Source details
Stave Three; excerpted from a longer sentence.
