A Found Thing
I collect the written word: Books, obviously, but I also collect quotes. The vast majority aren’t written down, really; they just stay in my (very fuddled) memory.
While cleaning up around the desk in my study,1 I found a piece of note paper that had the “petty and vindicative” quote about pain that I’d been searching for for years. The quote, not the specific piece of paper.
My quote searching would have been much easier if I had remembered who said it — for some reason I was thinking H. L. Mencken when it was really W. Somerset Maugham. Big difference.
Anyway. Ahem. The “petty and vindictive” quote:
It is not true that suffering enobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
It could have been Mencken…
* * * * *- I was hunting for some cat stitch markers I had bought recently on Etsy [↩]
