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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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
Sorrow
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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