The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotis…

W. Somerset Maugham
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. ✨ Summing Up (1938) p. 187
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