His joy was a release of Paul's conversion, not the heavy backslapping practical-joking humor of the Victorians, nor the cynical satire or the flippancy of the twenty first century mass media, just the gift of not taking himself or his adversaries too seriously.

John Charles Pollock
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  5. In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

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