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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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
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Art
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Fairly
Germany
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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