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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

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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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Prince
Excellent
Politician
Soon

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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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