"The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes—no one living knows more of mine than I."
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The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
My civilization is not even skin deep—it does not go deeper than my clothes.
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The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
"I don't like irony," she said; "it indicates a small soul."
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The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously.
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The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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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A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.
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A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A vivid and blinding light flashed from the whirling, inky clouds above. The deep cannonade of roaring thunder belched forth its fearsome challenge. The deluge came--all hell broke loose upon the jungle.
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Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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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Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs