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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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