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" Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. "
Franz Grillparzer
People
Different People
Myself
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" Prose talks and poetry sings. "
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" The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. "
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" It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is. "
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" If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. "
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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 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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