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One Quotes by G. M. Trevelyan
- The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of…
- There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
- If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and…
- 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.
- One half who graduate from college never read another book.
- The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,…
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