“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
Work
An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost of former partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future. The first of the Christmas books (Dickens released one a year from 1843–1847) it became an instant hit.
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Charles Dickens
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“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
“[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”
“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchen...”