G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
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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
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Author Details:
Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
English Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 16, 1876
Date of Death:
July 21, 1962
Nationality:
English
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Select G. M. Trevelyan Quotations:
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
G. M. Trevelyan
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
G. M. Trevelyan
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Anything,
Been,
Cannot,
Centuries,
Done,
Enough,
God,
Ignorant,
Impossible,
May,
Never,
Person,
Tell,
Thing,
Very,
Waiting,
Young
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All G. M. Trevelyan Quotations:
A little man often cast a...
Action springs not from thought, but...
Anger is a momentary madness, so...
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood...
Education... has produced a vast population...
I have two doctors, my left...
If the French noblesse had been...
Never tell a young person that...
One half who graduate from college...
Social history might be defined negatively...
The best job goes to the...
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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