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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
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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