Bah! Humbug! and the Nephew's Visit

From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Scrooge's nephew Fred arrives with cheerful Christmas greetings, prompting Scrooge's most famous line and his diatribe against the holiday.
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If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.' Fred's reply defends Christmas as 'a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
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