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

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Golf is a mental disorder.

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

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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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For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

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

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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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 do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

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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 am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.

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

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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

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

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

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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