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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.
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
Deserve
Indignant
Tears
Reminder
Pride
Reminders
Suffering
Suffer
Else
Calm
Nothing
Anger
Calms
Grief
Dries
Humility
Vexation
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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