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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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