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\u201cThere are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,\u201d returned the nephew: \u201cChristmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round \u2014 apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that \u2014 as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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