After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied. (Ernest Shackleton)

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

Ernest Shackleton

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