History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true. - G. M. Trevelyan

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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

G. M. Trevelyan

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

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We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

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

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I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

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