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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

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
Stupidity
Homeopathic
Healing
Jesuits
Ignorance
Jesuit
Done
Regression
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Cure
Ministers
Cures
Damage

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