For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

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Topic

Christmas Childhood

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

A Christmas Carol

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 3.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. "A Christmas Carol." A Christmas Carol and Other Writings, edited by Michael Slater. Penguin, 2003, stave 3.

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It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism

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Topic
Injustice Adversity

Author

Thomas Carlyle
Source
Chartism
Language
English
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.