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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
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Well
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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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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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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