Charles Dickens' classic novel "A Christmas Carol":

1. "Marley was dead: to begin with."

2. "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!"

3. "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

4. "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."

5. "I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."

6. "I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time."

7. "God bless us, every one!"

8. "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

9. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business."

10. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man."

11. "He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew."

12. "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead."

13. "No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused."

14. "I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future! The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me."

15. "Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business."

16. "I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year."

17. "I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

18. "Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more."

19. "I don't know what to do! 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."

20. "His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him."

21. "I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me."

22. "I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody!"

23. "You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"

24. "It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."

25. "You have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate."

26. "The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."

27. "My time grows short."

28. "Your lip is trembling. And what is that upon your cheek?"