WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:52:13 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg bindings – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Dickens, Charles -- A Christmas Carol (1843) https://wist.info/dickens-charles/34246/ https://wist.info/dickens-charles/34246/#respond Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:49:27 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34246 “You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”

“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English writer and social critic
A Christmas Carol (1843)

Sometimes oddly paraphrased, "We forge the chains we wear in life." ]]> https://wist.info/dickens-charles/34246/feed/ 0 34246