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1 " And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new.I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
2 " I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
3 " ...smiles are the foundation of beauty. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs
4 " Imagination is but another name for super intelligence. "
5 " I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, true daughter of Mars, the God of War, promise herself in marriage to John Carter, Gentleman of Virginia. "
6 " 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. "
7 " P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still. "
8 " The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in 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. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Princess of Mars / The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #1-2)
9 " He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books. "
10 " To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known. "
11 " They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality. "
12 " As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die. "
13 " Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory. "
14 " Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman? "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
15 " Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence. "
16 " Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, and I, at least, was content that it should be so. "
17 " I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year. "
18 " Teach me to speak the language of men. "
19 " If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium. "
20 " If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation. "
