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Hippolyte Taine has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
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I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs…
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is…
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In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and…
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After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
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Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what…
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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
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History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
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There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
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We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and…
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
— Hippolyte Taine
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I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through…
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot…
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I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff
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One of the things that adds tension to our lives is small frustrations. Losing car keys can give you a panic attack.…
— Jennifer James
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At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility…
— David Foster Wallace
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But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going…
— Bridget Hall
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You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes.
— David Icke
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No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own:…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
— William Butler Yeats
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Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his…
— Jonathan Dimbleby
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