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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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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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