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.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

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foundation

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

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judgment has-beens dull

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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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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I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

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real children sex

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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ordinary brain littles

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

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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 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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Golf is a mental disorder.

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Even theories must have foundations.

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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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reading people fiction

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

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weather world years

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

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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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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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differences world thinking

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

long way fall

I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

forever love-you believe