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Life is a stern business in any case: why pretend that it is anything else?
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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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Antarctic exploration is seldom as bad as you imagine, seldom as bad as it sounds.
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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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Such extremity of suffering cannot be measured: madness or death may give relief.
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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.