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“Is it said that too high a price in the lives of men was paid for this knowledge?” she asked. “Not by such calculation is human endeavor measured. Sacrifice is nobler than ease, unselfish life is consummated in lonely death, and the world is richer by the gift of suffering.”
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
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