Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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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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So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

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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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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

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

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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

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Golf is a mental disorder.

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When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

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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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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

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In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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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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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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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

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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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