[ { "id": "2021191a-0ec9-5139-91fb-89adbc42f7da", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.1", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "Marley was dead: to begin with.", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p1\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "a0c47b4a-4ed5-54c2-bf41-a29371c8bf78", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.2", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p1\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "b3912d98-1d65-54c7-856a-475ae76333c1", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.3", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p6\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "9d9eb59f-6424-5821-9ea4-3c17a5b65e4e", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.4", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "\"Bah!\" said Scrooge, \"Humbug!\"", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p13\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "d40e2778-fc5b-5bc0-a67f-6d982e4490a8", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.5", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "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", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p25\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "a1365962-3588-547d-aa93-22714ce8069b", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.6", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p25\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "b1dadd09-661a-5463-bfa8-14f300a835f1", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.7", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "If they would rather die,\" said Scrooge, \"they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p62\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "ceec8252-ad13-59c9-9748-00d41c5685ca", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.8", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p87\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "ef93cde4-6a09-5891-8072-ce006ac4626f", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.9", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p115\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "e175ac47-a221-53e6-b381-9f3841dd1e96", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.10", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "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.", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p131\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "651922c6-58de-57c3-9dac-e01f6aacba2f", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol I.11", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.", "notes": "Stave I: Marley's Ghost\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave1-p148\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism", "potent-quotable" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "95a16b24-ef77-561e-9652-c9071e5fca19", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol II.1", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.", "notes": "Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave2-p102\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "33484375-51c4-5f05-a695-d486e778f149", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol II.2", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "Another idol has displaced me", "notes": "Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave2-p112\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "8620c111-efe0-5456-97a8-f97410758484", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol II.3", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "This is the even-handed dealing of the world!", "notes": "Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave2-p115\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "1bd7a302-918c-5bb9-a306-160bc6a0b252", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol II.4", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!", "notes": "Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave2-p115\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "364dd570-b602-5099-80d2-5a1ffeac4242", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol III.1", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "I see a vacant seat", "notes": "Stave III: The Second of the Three Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave3-p71\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "96753b77-d4a1-5fd8-b8ae-3190af59e26c", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol III.2", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "God bless us every one!\" said Tiny Tim, the last of all.", "notes": "Stave III: The Second of the Three Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave3-p68\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "90fb5333-c609-5a36-a97e-bd1e7465ada8", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol III.3", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both", "notes": "Stave III: The Second of the Three Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave3-p144\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "4ffd00ea-da03-5d83-bd61-4fa565438f72", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol IV.1", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead", "notes": "Stave IV: The Last of the Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave4-p153\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "567c1e67-1a28-53b7-8ae1-076cb68c60d5", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol IV.2", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "I am not the man I was.", "notes": "Stave IV: The Last of the Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave4-p160\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "b516c247-7027-5f6d-a011-8fc06d180dc6", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol IV.3", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.", "notes": "Stave IV: The Last of the Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave4-p164\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism", "potent-quotable" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "e3b7e753-7acc-5f99-a611-ef989cf28a40", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol IV.4", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.", "notes": "Stave IV: The Last of the Spirits\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave4-p164\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "36ec4564-d330-5f0e-b0c5-8c6c203a2440", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol V.1", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.", "notes": "Stave V: The End of It\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave5-p6\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "dc108cca-f6c1-52a3-bed5-27d7fe5503bf", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol V.2", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew", "notes": "Stave V: The End of It\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave5-p70\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "ab17b077-6dbf-5c1b-937b-d137333997f9", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol V.3", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.", "notes": "Stave V: The End of It\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave5-p71\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] }, { "id": "152898e8-ce35-5a60-9a23-172dcd5f79c1", "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "A Christmas Carol V.4", "source": "Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)", "category": "Other", "translation": "", "text": "God bless Us, Every One!", "notes": "Stave V: The End of It\nIn context: https://kansascity.thewordhoard.com/christmas-carol.html#stave5-p71\nPublic domain. Kansas City Classical Society reading edition.", "tags": [ "dickens", "christmas-carol", "kccs", "aphorism", "potent-quotable" ], "srs": { "reps": 0, "ease": 2.5, "interval": 0, "due": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z" }, "history": [] } ]