Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

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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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I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

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I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

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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 had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

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Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

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You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

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For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

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Even theories must have foundations.

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

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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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