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I love victory, but I love not triumph.

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
Love
Triumph
Victory

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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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