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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?

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
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Powerlessness
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