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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 a question of quantities they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.

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Hippolyte Taine
Age: 64 †
Born: 1828
Born: April 21
Died: 1893
Died: March 5
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