"The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself."
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Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. vii (1783)
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Friedrich Schiller
1759 – 1805
deutscher Dichter und Schriftsteller
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