W. Somerset Maugham

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.

Source: The Summing Up, W. Somerset Maugham, 1938

Genuine Maugham, from The Summing Up (1938), in his reflections on literary fame and the people it visits. The sentence structure and the contrarian observation are characteristic and I recall it in that book specifically.

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