G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

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

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

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Never
  • Capable
  • Cricket