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G. M. Trevelyan Quotes: I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
         

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.


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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.



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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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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.



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The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.



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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.



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One half who graduate from college never read another book.



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A little man often cast a long shadow.



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History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.



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The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.





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When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.



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