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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Flattery
Perpetual
Silent
Attention
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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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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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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