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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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
Kindness
Learning
Causes
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Things
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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