Cobwebbed Quotes by G. M. Trevelyan

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• What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due…
• We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.
• The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,…
• A little man often cast a long shadow.
• Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
• Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world…
• After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.
• Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as…
• We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless…
• There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and…
• Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
• If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into…

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