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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.
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"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."
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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 was a Explorer from New Zealand (1919–2008).

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This quote is attributed to Edmund Hillary, a Explorer from New Zealand.
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Edmund Hillary lived from 1919 – 2008.