One of the big problems in our world is we give a lot more credit to people who spend their lives causing problems and then trying (often failing) to fix the problems they caused, than people who just did nothing at all Even though the latter amounts to the same thinghttps://twitter.com/ImpPercyPtible/status/1342282935639171072 …
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Not as endearing as you probably intended it to be Charles
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The ironic thing is that one of the things I'll go to bat for Scrooge for is him limiting his carbon footprint The house is pitch black all the time because "Darkness was cheap, and it suited him" He does, in fact, endeavor to save money on candles
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That's probably Dickens himself showing. His contemporaries thought he had an effete obsession with housekeeping and food, and was always griping/meddling with what middle class Victorians saw as the woman's sphere. Some even think he substantially ghostwrote his wife's cookbook.
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The ghostwriting thing isn't bigoted biographers downplaying Catherine's achievements; Dickens was always yelling his opinions on housekeeping to anyone who'd listen and a bunch of them appear in the book even tho one of the reasons they split was he hated how she ran the house.
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