I have marvelled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety.
Ernest Shackleton
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914–1917, chapter IX (1919); Complete sentence in his firsthand account of the James Caird journey. A wind shift brought reprieve near South Georgia; preserves the qualified “comparative safety,” rather than promising inevitable success.
- South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914–1917, chapter IX (1919)
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