Edgar Rice Burroughs Short Quotes

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Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations. D'Arnot.

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

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I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine.

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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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

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DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.

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

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

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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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He was a pretty good scholar despite his love of fun, and his particular hobby was paleontology.

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

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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 am Tarzan, King of the Apes, mighty hunter, mighty fighter. In all the jungle there is none so great.

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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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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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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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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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I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals.

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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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

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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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Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.

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I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.

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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 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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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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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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