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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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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 real genres: good and bad.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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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?
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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