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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Age: 75 †
Born: 1875
Born: February 23
Died: 1950
Died: March 19
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
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Undefiled
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Logic
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Brain

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