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Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
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If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
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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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His capacity for work was prodigious, and when his own work happened to take less than his full time he characteristically found activity in serving a scientist or exercising an animal.
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There were times when his optimism appeared forced and formal though I believe it was not really so: there were times when I have almost hated him for his infernal cheerfulness.