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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.

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
Future
Verbs
Two
Appropriate
May
Suffer
Without
Destiny
Men
Pride
Shall
Dies
Suffering
Confidently

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