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Fred: 'I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of... when men and women seem... to open their shut-up hearts freely.'
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From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Fred's defense of Christmas articulates the novel's vision of the holiday as a time of human connection independent of profit.
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