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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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
Surpass
Exaggerate
Recourse
Progress
Cannot
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