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Hippolyte Taine was a 19th-century French critic, historian, and philosopher. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
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“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than spontaneous organizations, but, again, through the legal monopoly which it d...”
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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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