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The door-knocker transforming into Marley's face. 'I wear the chain I forged in life... I made it link by link, and yard by yard.'
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From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Marley's spectral visit, dragging a chain forged of ledgers and cash-boxes, delivers the novel's central moral about human obligation.
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Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.Read in Books4Free →
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