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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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
Gathers
Needs
Reluctant
Necessary
Whose
Courage
Fear
Often
Proportionate
Ends
Insolence
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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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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