A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. — Lew Wallace · Skopia

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A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ · 1880

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Wallace, Lew. Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Harper & Brothers, 1880, bk. 5, ch. 7.

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