Quotation by Franz Grillparzer

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The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Franz Grillparzer

Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian author. Primislaus, in Libussa, act 3 (1872).

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