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Quote #33

            As I composed myself to sleep, my last thought was that the populace of the twin towns of Luxor and Karnak had taken Tanus to their hearts completely, but that this was an onerous and dubious distinction. Fame and popularity breed envy in high places, and the adulation of the mob is fickle. They often take as much pleasure in tearing down the idols that they have grown tired of, as they did in elevating them in the first place.              It is safer by far to live unseen and unremarked, as  I always attempt to do.                                    SOURCE: The River God by Wilbur Smith