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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.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Age: 75 †
Born: 1875
Born: February 23
Died: 1950
Died: March 19
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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.
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I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.
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