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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
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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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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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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