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Quote by Rudyard Kipling
Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and

Call a truce, then, to our labors — let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. – Rudyard Kipling

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Take up the White Mans burden — send forth the best ye breed — go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. – Rudyard Kipling

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Twas Christmas broachd the mightiest ale; twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor mans heart through half the year. – Sir Walter Scott

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Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. – Angela Carter

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