| And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space. |
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- George Macaulay Trevelyan |
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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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- George Macaulay Trevelyan |
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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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- George Macaulay Trevelyan |
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| If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! |
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- George Macaulay Trevelyan |
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