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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to 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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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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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