It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
— Charles Dickens Modern

Victorian novelist

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A Christmas Carol

Date / Period

1843

Category

Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm

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