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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

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
Someone
Immortal
May
Hunger
Make
Allow
Think
Gold
Thinking
Courses
Liszt
Course
Starved
Dies
Mozart
Cannot
Tons

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