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- Host: G. K. Chesterton has said 'In everyone there is a certain thing that loves children, fears death and that likes sunlight: that thing enjoys Dickens.'
- Ebenezer Scrooge: Tiny Tim, I saw a friend of mine at church just a little while ago, he's a surgeon. You and I are going to see him, and soon he'll be your friend too.
- Ebenezer Scrooge: My playmates... they didn't like me.
- Ghost of Christmas Past: Because you shunned them.
- Ebenezer Scrooge: There was a boy singing a Christmas carol last night, I should have liked to have given him something.