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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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.