John Cleese Quotes

Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was Assuming That English Grammar Was The Same As The Latin Grammar I Had Been Taught So Well. (I Remember That The First Week I Was There, A Boy Asked Me During Prep Whether Ager Was Second Or Third Declension And I Was Able To Tell Him Without Pausing For Thought That Ager - A Field - Was Second Declension, So It Went Like Annus, But That It Dropped The "e," As Opposed To Agger - A Rampart - Which Was Third Declension, And Retained The "e." "My God," I Thought As He Walked Away, "Captain Lancaster Did A Good Job." My Next Thought Was, "Lucky The Boy Didn't Ask Me What A Rampart Was. ... ") But Given That I Was Teaching Ten-year-olds, Geoffrey Tolson's Advice To "stay A Page Ahead" Seemed Perfectly Sound. So I Had No Reason To Believe, As I Strode Purposefully Into The Classroom To Teach Form III Their First History

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

John Cleese Quotes: Maps. I Was Less Clueless About The Basics Of English, Though I Didn't Realise At The Time That I Was

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