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I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

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For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

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If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

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They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

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Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

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For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

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A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

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Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

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No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

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The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

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For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

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I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.

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