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G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

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"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."
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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. "
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"If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out."
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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. "
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."
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"Village cricket spread fast through the land."
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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
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"I have two doctors - my left leg and my right leg."
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"Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge."
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"The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers."
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