A Quote by Edmund Hillary

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

Edmund Hillary

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Edmund Hillary
New Zealander - Explorer
July 20, 1919 - January 11, 2008

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

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Christopher Mintz-Plasse

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Kate Atkinson

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Marilyn Hacker

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Kevin Magnussen

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Trevor Paglen

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Jenna Dewan

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Lauren Bush

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Robert Lacey

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Joe Lhota

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