“Spoiled children … already get to know in early years the sufferings of the tyrant.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Verwöhnte Kinder sind die unglücklichsten; sie lernen schon in jungen Jahren die Leiden der Tyrannen kennen.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 39.

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Austrian writer 1830–1916

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