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

— Thomas Arnold

Letter accepting appointment as headmaster of Rugby; in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

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English headmaster of Rugby School 1795–1842

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