A Christmas Carol (1951)
Francis De Wolff: Spirit of Christmas Present
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Quotes
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Spirit of Christmas Present : My time with you is at an end, Ebenezer Scrooge. Will you profit from what I've shown you of the good in most men's hearts?
Ebenezer Scrooge : I don't know, how can I promise!
Spirit of Christmas Present : If it's too hard a lesson for you to learn, then learn this lesson!
[opens his robe, revealing two starving children]
Ebenezer Scrooge : [shocked] Spirit, are these yours?
Spirit of Christmas Present : They are Man's. This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!
Ebenezer Scrooge : But have they no refuge, no resource?
Spirit of Christmas Present : [quoting Scrooge] Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
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Spirit of Christmas Present : Come in! Come in, and know me better, man! I am the Spirit of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You've never seen the like of me before, have you?
Ebenezer Scrooge : Never, and I wish the pleasure had been indefinitely postponed.
Spirit of Christmas Present : So! Is your heart still unmoved towards us, then?
Ebenezer Scrooge : I'm too old and beyond hope! Go and redeem some younger, more promising creature, and leave me to keep Christmas in my own way!
Spirit of Christmas Present : Mortal! We Spirits of Christmas do not live only one day of our year. We live the whole three-hundred and sixty-five. So is it true of the Child born in Bethlehem. He does not live in men's hearts one day of the year, but in all days of the year. You have chosen not to seek Him in your heart. Therefore, you will come with me and seek Him in the hearts of men of good will.
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Ebenezer Scrooge : [at a homeless shelter where Alice is working] Spirit, are these people real, or are they shadows?
Spirit of Christmas Present : They are real. We are the shadows.
Ebenezer Scrooge : Both of us?
Spirit of Christmas Present : Did you not cut yourself off from you fellow man when you lost the love of that delicate creature?
