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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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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