I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy..
I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant..
I had a system, and the system worked..
I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned..
We want to mentally be young, even if physically we're not..
The asp doth on his feeder feed..
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me..
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends….
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was i….
Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat th….
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population..
it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupi….
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about….
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business..
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. ….
Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would pu….