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Quotation by W. Somerset Maugham
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Newsweek (New York, May 23, 1960)Alroy Kear, in Cakes and Ale (1930)Ashenden, in Cakes and Ale (1930)A Writer's Notebook (1949)Cakes and Ale (1930)Related Subjects
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966), British author. The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 17 (1919).
Nearly twenty years later, Maugham used almost identical words to describe the suffering he witnessed as a medical student, in The Summing Up, ch. 19 (1938).
Nearly twenty years later, Maugham used almost identical words to describe the suffering he witnessed as a medical student, in The Summing Up, ch. 19 (1938).
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