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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and selfcomplacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
The Summing Up Maugham, W Somerset 1938
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The selfcomplacent stupidity with which they insisted on Organising an army as if they had been organising a commonwealth would be incredible if it had not been frankly and even boastfully recorded by one of themselves.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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