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W. Somerset Maugham

"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."

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"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."

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"Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope."

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"I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go."

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"Though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert."

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