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G. M. Trevelyan has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,…
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
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Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world…
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After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as…
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We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless…
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There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and…
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Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
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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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Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.
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The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other…
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Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of…
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My idea of a perfect world really can't be designed by one person or even by a million experts. It's going to…
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