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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

— Sophie Swetchine Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

A woman who has not been pretty has never been young.

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life; as Adam did at the age of thirty.

Strength alone knows conflict. Weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.

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