A Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards

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1
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Qoute that describes scrooge and aggression or lack of want to spend money

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‘He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’

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The long list of adjectives to describe tight-fisted

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‘A squeezing,wrenching,grasping,scraping,clutching,covetous, old sinner,!’

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3
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The quote about him having a hard exterior

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‘Solitary as an oyster’

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4
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The quote describing the hard exterior but the possible spark

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‘Hard and sharp as flint’

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5
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Quote about the cold

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‘The cold within him froze his old features’

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The quote about his cold office

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‘He iced his office’

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7
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Story type of quote

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‘Once upon a time…’

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8
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The lack of trust in Bob

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‘He might keep an eye on his clerk’

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The quote about the fires

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‘Scrooge had a very small fire,but his clerks fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal’

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10
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The quote about starting his fire again

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‘He couldn’t replenish it’

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11
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Where scrooge kept his coal box

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‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’

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12
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Scrooges permanent temperature

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‘He carried his own low temperature always’

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13
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The quote about the fog

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‘The fog came pouring in…’

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14
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Freds greeting to scrooge on christmas

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‘“A merry christmas uncle,god save you!” Cried a cheerful voice’

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Quote about glow

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‘He was all in a glow’

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16
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Quote about sparkling eyes

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‘His eyes sparkled’

17
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Humbug quote

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‘Bah!…humbug!’

18
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The quote about scrooge concluding to become good

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‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’

19
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The quote about christmas humour

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‘I’ll keep my christmas humour to the last’

20
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The quote about charity

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‘Are there no prisons?’

21
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keenl􏰊y felt and Ab􏰄ndance rejoices􏰀

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Keenly fel􏰂􏰆t and Ab􏰄ndance rejoices􏰀

22
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Quote on nothing

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‘Nothing!’

23
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Quote on the poor dying

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Surplus population

24
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Quote on business

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‘Its not my business’

25
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Quote on fog and darkness

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‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’

26
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Quote about the freezing cold

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‘The cold became intense’

27
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Quote on the poor mining men and boys on christmas

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‘Had lightened a great fire in a brazier,round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture’

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Quote about bob taking scrooges money

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‘A poor excuse of picking a mans pocket every twenty-fifth of December’

29
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Quote on Camden town

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‘The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden town’

30
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Quote on scrooges dinner and where he eats it

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‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’

31
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First quote on marley being dead

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‘Marley was dead to begin with’

32
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Quote on being sole

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‘Sole mourner’,’sole friend’

33
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Quote on jacob Marley’s face on the door knob

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‘Not a knocker, but Marleys face’

34
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Quote scrooges fondness on darkness

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‘Darkness is cheap, and scrooge liked it’

35
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Quote about marleys chain around his waist

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‘The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’

36
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The long quote about marleys chain

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‘It was long…made of cash-boxes,key,padlocks,ledgers,deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel’

37
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Quote about jacob being scrooges partner

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‘In life i was your partner,jacob marley’