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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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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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

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The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.

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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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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

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For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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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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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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

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

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I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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

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