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“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
— Horace Mann
Education reformer
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867), p. 7
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