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

—  Sophie Swetchine

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 622.

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Russian salon-holder 1782–1857

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