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English social history (1942)
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.
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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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[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
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In those days, before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
February 16, 1876
Died:
July 21, 1962
(aged 86)
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