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George Macaulay Trevelyan Quotes & Sayings

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Famous Quotes By George Macaulay Trevelyan

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Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

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The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passion, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

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Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

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We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers. — George Macaulay Trevelyan