"Hurrah! Hurrah!” said Corin. “I shan’t have to be King. I shan’t have to be King. I’ll always be a prince. It’s princes have all the fun.”
“And that’s truer than thy brother knows, Cor,” said King Lune. “For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there’s hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land.”
I love the simplicity of the line, "to be the first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat".
Many want the adulation and power which comes with positions of rank. With that rank comes the responsibility I'm afraid many in those very positions have forgotten. Serving, Protecting, and taking the hit when things go wrong, giving credit beyond ones own domain.
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