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

George Macaulay Trevelyan

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We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

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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The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, 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 passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow"
-- "Autobiography of an Historian", An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949).

George Macaulay Trevelyan

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