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G. M. Trevelyan - 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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G. M. Trevelyan

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Born: February 16, 1876
Died: July 21, 1962 (aged 86)
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