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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
Dupes
Credulity
Suspicion
Wells
Well
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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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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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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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