Apsley Cherry-Garrard - The Worst Journey in the World (1922)

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Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

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They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children, or like old men, full of their own importance and late for dinner, in their black tail-coats and white shirt-fronts — and rather portly withal.

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The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

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And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

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I now see very plainly that though we achieved a first-rate tragedy, which will never be forgotten because it was a tragedy, tragedy was not our business.

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For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

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I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.

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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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The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.

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And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

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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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