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

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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

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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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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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As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.

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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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I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

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If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

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

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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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Even theories must have foundations.

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

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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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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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