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Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.

Source: A Song for the Ragged Schools, st. 12.
-- Eliza Cook, (Dec 24 1818-1889), English poet; She is best known for her poem The Old Arm-Chair.

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