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‘Every idiot who goes about with ‘‘Merry Christmas’’ on his lips ….. ( stave 1) (Scrooge)

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‘Every idiot that goes about with ‘‘Merry Christmas’’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and be buried with a stake of holly through his heart’.

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'’Are there no prisons ? …. ‘ (Scrooge) (Stave1)

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‘Are there no prisons ? are there no work houses ? ‘

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‘Bah …’ (stave 1) (Scrooge)

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‘Bah humbug !’

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‘A solitary child, … ‘ (stave 2)

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‘A solitary child, neglected by his friends … Scrooge said he knew it and he sobbed’.

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‘I should like to be able to Say …’ (stave 2) (Scrooge)

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‘I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now’ .

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‘Another idol has … ‘ (Belle) (stave 2)

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‘Another idol has displaced me, a golden one’.

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‘God bless us ….’ (Tiny Tim) (stave 3 )

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‘God bless us everyone !’

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‘Mr Scrooge !’ said Bob. ‘Ill give you …’ (stave 3 ) (Bob)

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‘Mr Scrooge !’ said Bob. ‘Ill give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast !’

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‘Are there no prisons ?’ said the spirit, turning on him … ‘ (stave 3) (GoCPresent)

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‘Are there no prisons ?’ said the spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. ‘ Are there no workhouses ?’

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‘he viewed them with detestation …’ (stave 4 ) (Scrooge)

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‘he viewed them with detestation and disgust ‘

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‘the finger pointed from the grave to him…’ (stave 4)

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‘the finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again’

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‘Best and happiest of all, the time before him …. !’ (stave 5 )

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‘Best and happiest of all, the time before him was his own, to make amends in !’

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‘Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more ; … ‘ (stave 5)

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‘Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more ; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die , he was a second father’.

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‘I am as light as a …. I am as happy as an …. I am merry as a ….. I am as giddy as a drunken man ‘. A merry Christmas to … ‘ (stave 5) (Scrooge)

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‘I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry christmas to everybody’.

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‘Marley was dead …’ (stave 1)

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‘Marley was dead to begin with.

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‘The phantom slowly,… ‘ (stave 4 ) (GoCYTC)

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‘The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.’

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‘A bare …’ (stave 1)

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‘A bare melancholy room. ‘

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‘There was nothing very cheerful in the climate of the town, and yet…’ (stave 3)

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‘There was nothing very cheerful in the climate of the town, and yet there was an air of cheerfulness abroad’.

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‘The whole quarter reeked with crime, with …’ (stave 4)

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‘The whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth and misery’.

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‘The cold within him …’ ( stave 1)

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‘The cold within him froze his old features’

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‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, … !’ (stave 1)

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

22
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‘Oh but he was a tight …’ (stave 1)

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‘Oh but he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone.’

23
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‘Your lip is ….’ ‘and what is that upon your …’. (stave 2 )

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‘Your lip is trembling’ ‘and what is that upon your chek’ ?’

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‘Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit, and was …’ (stave 3)

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‘Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief’

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‘I will honour christmas in my heart, and…’. (stave 5)

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‘I will honour christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.’

26
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‘I wear the chain i …’ (stave 1)(Marley)

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‘I wear the chain i forged in life’

27
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‘Mankind was ….’ (stave 1) (Marley)

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‘Mankind was my business’

28
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‘He rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious … ‘ (stave 2) (Fezziwig)

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‘He rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over’

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‘Its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, ….’. (stave 3) (GOCPresent)

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‘Its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrainted demeanour and joyful air’.

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‘The spirit was immovable …’ (stave 4) (GOCYTC)

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‘The spirit was immovable as ever’
(not able to be moved)

31
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‘My dear !’ was Bob’s mild answer… !’ (stave 3)

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‘My dear !’ was Bob’s mild answer. ‘Christmas day !’

32
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‘I see a vacant seat, ‘ replied the ghost, ‘in the poor chimney corner, and a …’ (stave 3)

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‘I see a vacant seat, ‘ replied the ghost, ‘in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. ‘

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‘Brave in …’ ( stave 3)

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‘Brave in ribbons’

34
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‘Why did you get …’ said Scrooge’ (stave 1)

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‘Why did you get married ? said Scrooge’

35
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‘I am sorry for him… ‘ Who suffers by …’ (stave 3)

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‘I am sorry for him… ‘ Who suffers by his ill whims ? himself always’

36
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‘Always a delicate creature … But she … ‘ (GoCPast) (stave 2)

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‘Always a delicate creature … But she had a large heart ! ‘

37
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‘The happiness he gives is quite….’ (stave 2) (about Fezziwig)

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‘The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it costs a fortune’

38
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‘A kind forgiving, charitable …’ (Fred ) (Stave 1)

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‘A kind forgiving, charitable, pleasant time’

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’ I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion … ‘ (stave 2) (Belle )

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’ I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you’

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‘Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish ; … ‘ (stave 3)

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‘Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish ; but prostrate, too, in their humility’.

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‘On his brow i see that written …’ (stave 3) (GoCpresent)

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‘On his brow i see that written which is doom’

42
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‘Where angles might have sat enthroned, …’ (stave 3)

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‘Where angles might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing.’

43
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They were so happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and …’ (stave 3)

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They were so happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.’

44
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‘He lay in the dark, empty house, with not a …’ (stave 4)

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‘He lay in the dark, empty house, with not a man , a woman or a child to say he was kind’

45
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‘Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy child …’ (innocence) (stave 4)

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‘Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy child essence was from God’.

46
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‘I help to support the establishments i have mentioned - …’ (stave 1)

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‘I help to support the establishments i have mentioned - they cost enough ‘

47
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‘Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends , to which, …’ (stave 4) (Scrooge)

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‘Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends , to which, if preserved in, they must lead’

48
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‘I am not the man …’ (stave 4)

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‘I am not the man i was’

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