"The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer."
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"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. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!"
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A Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens
My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.
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Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley