Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been…

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.

James Cook

1774

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Cook, James. The Journals of Captain Cook. Penguin Classics, 2000.

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Cook, James. Diary entry. 30 Jan. 1774.

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