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He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity. We owe our superfluity, and to be happy in the performance of our duty we must exceed it.

— 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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