It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation
Maugham, William Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence. William Heinemann, 1919, ch. 17.
Current Citation
Maugham, William Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence. Vintage Classics, 2009, ch. 17.