Happy Holidays

There’s nothing sadder in

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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. Erma Bombeck

Christmas is a necessity.

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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid

Once again, we come

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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. Dave Barry

In the old days,

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In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it Christmas and went to church; the Jews called it Hanukka and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say Merry Christmas! or Happy Hanukka! or (to the atheists) Look … Read more

Love came down at

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Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign. Christina Rossetti

If the aim is

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If the aim is to keep Christ in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don’t lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the happy holiday sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy … Read more

I have always thought

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I have always thought of Christmas time… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Charles Dickens

But I am sure

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But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. Charles Dickens