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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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Author Details: Type: Historian Quotes Category: English Historian Quotes Date of Birth: February 16, 1876 Date of Death: July 21, 1962 Nationality: English Amazon: G. M. Trevelyan on Amazon |
Related Authors: John Acton Edward Gibbon Thomas B. Macaulay Harold Acton Anita Brookner John Keegan James Anthony Froude Edward Norman Henry James Sumner Maine |
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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 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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Quote Keywords: Been, Burnt, Capable, Cricket, French, Had, Never, Peasants, Playing, Their, Would |
Dictionary Links: Been, Burnt, Capable, Cricket, French, Had, Never, Playing, Their, Would |
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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