Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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 discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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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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Even theories must have foundations.

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Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

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You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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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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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

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

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

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

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

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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-

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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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