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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
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Attention
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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