"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."
"What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart."
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Source: Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Diversion Classics)”, p.398, Diversion Books
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