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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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