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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Hype
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Fancy
Weakness
Strength
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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