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Quotation from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business”

Charles Dickens (spoken by Marley's Ghost)

A Christmas Carol, Stave I (1843 first edition)

Portrait of Charles Dickens

Marley rebukes Scrooge for praising him as a good man of business.

Citation: "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business" — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Stave I (1843 first edition). (id a-christmas-carol-q6)

Virtues: Charity

Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.

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