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By Charles Dickens
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
- Source
- A Christmas Carol, in Prose (first edition), 1843 · Stave Four, "The Last of the Spirits", p. 151
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- Internet Archive (University of Toronto scan of the first edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1843)
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From Stave Four, "The Last of the Spirits", of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (London: Chapman and Hall, 1843). Spoken by Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.