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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Looks
Brows
Marked
Stamps
Nowhere
Woman
Disapproval
Nature
Brow
Around
Candid
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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