A Christmas Carol

"I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round...As a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long Calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.