Some Christmas Stories: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

two books in one: Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens and The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum. “In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.” "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 ------------------------------------------------- “Everything perishes except the world itself and its keepers...But while life lasts everything on earth has its use. The wise seek ways to be helpful to the world, for the helpful ones are sure to live again.” “Childhood is the time of man’s greatest content. ‘Tis during these years of innocent pleasure that the little ones are most free from care. [...] Their joy is in being alive, and they do not stop to think. In after-years the doom of mankind overtakes them, and they find they must struggle and worry, work and fret, to gain the wealth that is so dear to the hearts of men.” “every man has his mission, which is to leave the world better, in some way, than he found it.” “. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .” “Everything perishes except the world itself and its keepers...But while life lasts everything on earth has its use. The wise seek ways to be helpful to the world, for the helpful ones are sure to live again.” L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus