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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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