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Throughout his last 16 years he suffered pain from cancer of the jaw, saw his books burned by Nazis, his ideas distorted by exaggeration, overpopularity, licentious application.

From Time Magazine Archive

And soon the fame of the little house went up and down the trenches, and it was like to die of overpopularity.

From The Amazing Interlude by Rinehart, Mary Roberts