- Friedrich von Schiller
(11/10/1759 – 05/09/1805)
German writer
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"What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment."
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| "Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar." |  |
"Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks;
they are the summits of ranges."
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"The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D."
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"It is only the amateur [gardener] like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer."
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"The soundtrack, bless its sour heart, meanwhile thumps out THE BLUE DANUBE, to confer a little of the courtliness of bygone years on space."
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| "Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers." |  |
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