• I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

  Alfred de Vigny
  French poet and writer 1797-1863
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. adaptation
2. experience
3. grouping
4. capacity
5. events
6. chain

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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. by : Alfred de Vigny

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