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Therefore, one will see in the so-called refined ages, softness degenerate not seldom into effeminacy, plainness into insipidity, correctness into em… - Friedrich Schiller
" "Therefore, one will see in the so-called refined ages, softness degenerate not seldom into effeminacy, plainness into insipidity, correctness into emptiness, liberality into arbitrariness, lightness into frivolity, calm into apathy, and the most contemptible caricature border upon the most glorious humanity.
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About Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, physician, historian, dramatist, and playwright.
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
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Johann C. F. Schiller
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller
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Schiller
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Fridrikh Shiller
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Fridrikh Shiler
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F. Shiller
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Frideriko Schiller
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Joh. Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Frederick Schiller
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Hsi-le
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Friedrich von Schiller
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We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
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