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G. M. Trevelyan [1876-1962] English
Rank: 102
Historian


George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM CBE FRS FBA, was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927 to 1943. He served as Master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951. In retirement, he was Chancellor of Durham University.

Anger, Education, Graduation



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A little man often cast a long shadow.
101
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. Anger
102
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
103
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
104
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
105
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
106
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. Education
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One half who graduate from college never read another book. Graduation
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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.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
110
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
111
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
112

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