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History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

G. M. Trevelyan

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G. M. Trevelyan
Age: 86 †
Born: 1876
Born: February 16
Died: 1962
Died: July 21
Historian
Writer
George Macauley Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Events
Analogies
Future
Infinitely
History
Repeats
True
Equally
Past
Event
Enough
Complexes
Never
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We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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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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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. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.
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Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.
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Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
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