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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Germany
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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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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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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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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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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