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

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 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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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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Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.
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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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We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.
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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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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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If you write one story, it may be bad if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
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Beast? Jane murmured. Then God make me a beast for, man or beast, I am yours.
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I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.
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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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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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Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?
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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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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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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.
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A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.
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For me, temperance is essential to good work.
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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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