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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

G.M. Trevelyan

1942

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Curiosity Progress

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1942

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G.M. Trevelyan

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, introduction.

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