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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Dupes
Credulity
Suspicion
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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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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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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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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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