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  • I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

  • It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

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    Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 17
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W. Somerset Maugham

  • Born: January 25, 1874
  • Died: December 16, 1965
  • Occupation: Playwright
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