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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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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.