"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."
— Joseph Conrad

January 1, 1970

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Though sometimes attributed to Conrad it is a misquotation from Captain James Cook's journals (1774-01-30): "I whose ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go, was not sorry at meeting with this interruption."