176 Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs


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    Are you sure,” he asked the clerk, “that my replies haven’t been sidetracked somewhere? I have seen people taking letters away from here all day, and that bird there just walked off with a fistful.”The clerk grinned. “What you advertising for?” he asked.“A position,” replied Jimmy.“That’s the answer,” explained the clerk. “That fellow there was advertising for help.

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    As he emerged again and crossed through the dining-room he saw that Murray had regained consciousness and was sitting at a table wiping the blood from his face with a wet napkin. As Murray’s eyes fell upon his late antagonist he half rose from his chair and shook his fist at Jimmy.“I’ll get you for this, young feller!” he yelled. “I’ll get you yet, and don’t you forget it.”“You just had me,” Jimmy called back; “but it didn’t seem to make you very happy.

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    p 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face in the same primeval forest. That we are here today evidences their victory.

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    P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.

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    A perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation, or brutal or degrading passions. For, though Tarzan of the Apes was a killer of men and of beasts, he killed as the hunter kills, dispassionately, except on those rare occasions when he had killed for hate—though not the brooding, malevolent hate which marks the features of its own with hideous lines.

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