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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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Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.
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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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More than once in my short life I have been struck by the value of the man who is blind to what appears to be a common-sense certainty: he achieves the impossible.
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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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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.