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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.

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
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Anne Sophie Swetchine
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