G. M. Trevelyan quotes

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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan
Cricket
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan
Excuses
Job
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan
Anger
Control
Madness
Passion
Will
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
G. M. Trevelyan
Thought
Action
Responsibility
A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Man
Shadow
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan
Life
Civilization
Blood
Curiosity
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
G. M. Trevelyan
Doctors
Right
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
God
May
Waiting
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
History
Politics
People
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
Education
Population
Reading
Worth
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan
Cricket
Land
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan
College