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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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