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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.
Friedrich Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1759
Born: November 10
Died: 1805
Died: May 9
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Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
Johann C. F. Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller
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Fridrikh Shiller
Fridrikh Shiler
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Frideriko Schiller
Joh. Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Frederick Schiller
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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