“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

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″‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!‘”

One of my favorite stories ever. You can read A Christmas Carol in two hours and be enriched forever.
 

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And in a shout out to Malthus and the beginnings of Social Darwinism: “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
 

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One of my favorite stories ever. You can read A Christmas Carol in two hours and be enriched forever.
Spot on. Same thing with poetry, you can easily find masterpieces online and read them in fifteen minutes max, pretty much.
 

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Spot on. Same thing with poetry, you can easily find masterpieces online and read them in fifteen minutes max, pretty much.
Nine minutes. Everyone needs to read this at least once.

 
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