Mar. 10th, 2014

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At intervals, for periods of weeks and even of months, he gave [smoking] up; he would, for instance, at the beginning of Lent fling his pipe away in Crippetts woods, but always remembered when Lent was over where to find it.


George Seaver, Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, pg 30



Wilson successfully quit smoking in 1900, though briefly took it up again while doing his grouse studies between Antarctic expeditions.

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