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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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 love that dies has never lived.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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