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At the bottom of the fall we were able to stand again on dry land.

— Ernest Shackleton South (1920)

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I have been thinking much of our prospects.

South (1920)

The difficulties of the journey lay behind us.

South (1920)

Optimism is true moral courage.

South with Shackleton (1949)

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

Shackleton (2013)

Better a live donkey than a dead lion.

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