"Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others."
"All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico."
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Source: Lew Wallace (1969). “Lew Wallace; an Autobiography”
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