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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

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
Suspicion
Wells
Well
Dupes
Credulity

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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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