Holiday Giving

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen

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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. Erma Bombeck

Christmas, my child, is

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Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. Dale Evans

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

Christmas is doing a

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Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. Charles M. Schulz

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

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

No one is useless

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Charles Dickens

‘Tis blessed to bestow,

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‘Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day! Carolyn Wells

I love the Christmas-tide,

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I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give! Carolyn Wells