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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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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