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Life is a stern business in any case: why pretend that it is anything else?
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If you are a brave man you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery.
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What pulled Scott through was character, sheer good grain, which ran over and under and through his weaker self and clamped it together.
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Somehow in judging polar life you must discount compulsory endurance; and find out what a man can shirk, remembering always that it is a sledging life which is the hardest test.
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It is because it is so much easier to shirk in civilization that it is difficult to get a standard of what your average man can do.
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There is no doubt that a blizzard has a bewildering and numbing effect upon the brain of any one exposed to it.