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.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Been, May, Very, Centuries
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
- G. M. Trevelyan
College, Graduation, Never, Graduate
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Education, Unable, Read, Produced
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Curiosity, Civilization, Disinterested
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Politics, Left, Social, Negatively
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Best, Back, Goes, Passing
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Capable, Been, Had, Burnt
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Fast, Cricket, Through, Village
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Right, Two, Left, Doctors
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Thought, Springs, Readiness, Action
A little man often cast a long shadow.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Man, Shadow, Cast, Often
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
- G. M. Trevelyan
Anger, Madness, Will, Momentary
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