Christmas Eve will find me, where the lovelight gleams. I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams. – Kim Gannon and Walter Kent

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The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood. – Richard Paul Evans

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May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.

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Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook. - Michael Dirda

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Some Christmas tree ornaments do a lot more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago. – Tom Baker

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The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. – Henry David Thoreau

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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. -Calvin Coolidge

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Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been placed in its orbit centuries before in a trajectory that would make it appear at that special moment of time to announce the birth of a special child. Just as there is divine design in the universe, so each of us has been placed in our own orbits in this life to love, to serve, to help light the world.

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Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

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