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My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Source: On appointment as headmaster of Rugby School; Letter, 2 March 1828; in The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., vol. 1, 1845.
-- Thomas Arnold, (Jun 13 1795-1842), English educator; As headmaster of Rugby School, he had much influence on public school education in England; the father of the poet and critic Matthew Arnold.

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