“I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.”
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Lewis "Lew" Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." - wikipedia
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“I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.”
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“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”
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“Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.”
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“As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.”
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