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George Macaulay Trevelyan CBE OM (February 16, 1876 Welcombe House, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire - July 21, 1962 Cambridge ), was an English historian. Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a consciously dispassionate analysis, that became old-fashioned during his long and productive career

  • Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. G. M. Trevelyan »
  • Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. G. M. Trevelyan »
  • Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan »
  • Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan »
  • Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. G. M. Trevelyan »
  • The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. G. M. Trevelyan »


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