"Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
b3356210464je citiraoprije 2 godine
To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything,
b3356210464je citiraoprije 2 godine
No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle,
b3356210464je citiraoprije 2 godine
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
b4697926722je citiraoprije 3 godine
squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner
сжимающий, выжимающий, хватающий, скребущий, цепляющий, жадный старый грешник
Kingaje citiraoprije 3 godine
The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear heart’s content.
Fizza Imranje citiraoprije 3 mjeseca
“To any kindly given. To a poor one most.”
“Why to a poor one most?” asked Scrooge.
“Because it needs it most.”
Evie Passeyje citiraoprije 4 mjeseca
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!