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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Piety
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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