“I haven’t deeply considered the matter”, smiled
George Moon, “but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it’s
unpalatable, and take human nature as you find it, smiling when it’s absurd and
grieved without exaggeration when it’s pitiful, is to be cynical, then I
suppose I’m a cynic. Mostly human nature is both absurd and pitiful, but if
life has taught you tolerance you find in it more to smile than to weep.”
"The Back of Beyond",
in The Complete Short
Stories of W. Somerset Maugham,
Vol II
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