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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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