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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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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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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 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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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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