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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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Flattery
Perpetual
Silent
Attention
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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