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.
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- Author's profession: Soldier
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 10, 1827
- Died: February 15, 1905
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