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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Source: Writer's Diary, ed. by Leonard Woolf, 1954; entry for 13 Aug 1921.
-- Virginia Woolf, (Jan 25 1882-1941), English feminist, essayist, critic; She is best known for her classic feminist essay, A Room of One's Own, 1929.