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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

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
Mimicry
Hostility
Crowds
Character
Made

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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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