A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens
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A reason to turn the page
Small looks and words can be worth a fortune in happiness—what tiny thing are you still counting as nothing?
Discovery 4 of 15"It isn't that," said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. "It isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."