Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round [...] as 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.

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.