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Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

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
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Frightened
Solitude
Brave
Sometimes
Even
Men

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