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Matthew Henson Quotes

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"I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received; I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims."
-Matthew Henson
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"It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing."
-Matthew Henson
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"I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world."
-Matthew Henson
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"We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether."
-Matthew Henson
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