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We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

G. M. Trevelyan
Past, Analogies, Events

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!

G. M. Trevelyan
Character, Names, People

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

G. M. Trevelyan
Cricket, Peasants, Has Beens
G. M. Trevelyan (1944). “English Social History”

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

G. M. Trevelyan
Journey, Hiking, Perfection
G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

G. M. Trevelyan
Land, Village, Cricket
Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

G. M. Trevelyan
Song, Italian, Night

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