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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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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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The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

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Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

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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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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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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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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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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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Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

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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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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.

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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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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

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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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Golf is a mental disorder.

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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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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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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