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“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” – Edna Ferber
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“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – Buddy the Elf
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“Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale
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“Christmas is not as much about opening presents as it is about opening our hearts.” – Janice Maeditere
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“Christmas, my child, is love in action.” – Dale Evans
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“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” – Charles M. Schulz
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“Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.” – Margaret Thatcher
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“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.” – Thomas S. Monson
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“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things.” – Calvin Coolidge
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“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” – Alexander Smith
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“Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever.” – Joel Osteen
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“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.” – Norman Vincent Peale
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“Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you’re home.” – Carol Nelson FRIENDSHIP QUOTES FROM OF MICE AND MEN
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“May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace, the gladness of Christmas give you hope, and the warmth of Christmas grant you love.” – Unknown
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“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.” – Richard Lamm
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“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale
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“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.” – Ruth Carter Stapleton
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“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis
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“Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself.” – Norman Wesley Brooks
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“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” – Alexander Smith
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“Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home.” – Carol Nelson
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“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.” – W. C. Jones
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“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” – Winston Churchill
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“Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things.” – Calvin Coolidge
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“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – Buddy the Elf