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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
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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