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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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
Divine
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Men
Misfortune
Misfortunes
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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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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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