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G. M. Trevelyan
English
Historian
About the author
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#College
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#Land
#Cricket
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#Population
#Reading
#Education
#Worth
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#People
#History
#Politics
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#God
#May
#Waiting
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#Right
#Doctors
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#Life
#Civilization
#Curiosity
#Blood
A little man often cast a long shadow.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#Man
#Shadow
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#Action
#Thought
#Responsibility
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#Will
#Anger
#Control
#Passion
#Madness
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#Job
#Excuses
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan,
English
Historian
#Cricket