“What is the short meaning of the long speech?”

— Friedrich Schiller , Wallenstein

Act I, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

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German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759–1805

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