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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.
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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
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