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

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

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To do each day two things one dislikes is a precept I have followed scrupulously: Every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
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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. Somerset Maugham

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