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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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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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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.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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