“Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.”
Source : Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000. 
“We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.”
“The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.”
“You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.”
“I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.”
“Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.”
Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.405, e-artnow
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