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Quotation from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy”

Charles Dickens (spoken by Ghost of Christmas Present)

A Christmas Carol, Stave III (1843 first edition)

Portrait of Charles Dickens

The spirit reveals two starved children under his robe as allegories of social neglect.

Citation: "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy" — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Stave III (1843 first edition). (id a-christmas-carol-q7)

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

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