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    Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

    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)

    I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)