Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

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• Great God! This is an awful place.
• But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
• I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.
• Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
• As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
• But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our…
• But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.
• Each man in his way is a treasure.
• Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes…
• Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
• I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
• To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
• I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake…
• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
• The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
• I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
• Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and…
• Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.
• With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.
• Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the…

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