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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

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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Push
Slow
Ahead
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Eagerness

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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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