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By Charles Dickens
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!
- Source
- A Christmas Carol, in Prose (first edition), 1843 · Stave One, "Marley's Ghost", p. 33
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- Internet Archive (University of Toronto scan of the first edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1843)
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From Stave One, "Marley's Ghost", of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (London: Chapman and Hall, 1843). Spoken by the ghost of Jacob Marley to Scrooge.