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Isabelle Eberhardt
" One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. "

Isabelle Eberhardt
" I knew that if I could cross that ice-locked continent I was bound to discover new territory. "

Lincoln Ellsworth
" If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration. "

Lincoln Ellsworth
" Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do. "

Lincoln Ellsworth
" One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father. "

Lincoln Ellsworth
" School was a horror. I couldn't do anything with school - always the dunce of my classes, always falling behind. "

Lincoln Ellsworth
" The hoarfrost (which coated heavily the inside of the metal compartment), melting, dripped down our necks and spattered into our mugs of chocolate. "

Lincoln Ellsworth
" I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills. "

Ranulph Fiennes
" My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary. "

John Charles Fremont
" These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months. "

Humphrey Gilbert
" We are as near to heaven by sea as by land. "

Humphrey Gilbert
" The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe. "

Christopher Gist
" When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. "

Christopher Gist
" Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. "

Richard Halliburton
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