Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. -G. M. Trevelyan

 

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.

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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

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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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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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