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101 " P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
102 " If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
103 " There is much which I have left out; much which I have not dared to tell; but you will find the story of his second search for Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, even more remarkable than was his first "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
104 " 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. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Carter: Adventures on Mars (Barsoom #1-5)
105 " Few western wonders are more inspiring than the beauties of an Arizona moonlit landscape; the silvered mountains in the distance, the strange lights and shadows upon hog back and arroyo, and the grotesque details of the stiff, yet beautiful cacti form a picture at once enchanting and inspiring; as though one were catching for the first time a glimpse of some dead and forgotten world, so different is it from the aspect of any other spot upon our earth. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
106 " the countless unnamed jewels of Mars, "
107 " help yourselves to equilibrimotors and pray to your ancestors that no air patrol suspects you as you cross the city towards your destination. What think you of this plan, Gor Hajus?” “It is splendid,” replied the assassin. “And you, Vad Varo?” “If I knew what an equilibrimotor is I might be in a better position to judge the merits of the plan,” I replied. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The John Carter of Mars Collection (7 Novels/Bonus Audiobook Links)
108 " Suddenly I came to myself and, with that strange instinct which seems ever to prompt me to my duty, "
109 " could have cried aloud in exultation when my scrutiny disclosed the almost invisible incrustation of particles of carbonized electrons which are thrown off by these Martian torches. It "
110 " There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here "
111 " Why, I never did believe it, "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
112 " If man spoke only when he had something worth while to say and said that as quickly as possible, ninety-eight per cent of the human race might as well be dumb, thereby establishing a heavenly harmony from pate to tonsil. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
113 " The things which the Stygian darkness hid from my objective eye could not have been half so wonderful as the pictures which my imagination wrought as it conjured to life again the ancient peoples of this dying world and set them once more to the labours, the intrigues, the mysteries and the cruelties which they had practised to make their last stand against the swarming hordes of the dead sea bottoms that had driven them step by step to the uttermost pinnacle of the world where they were now intrenched behind an impenetrable barrier of superstition. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , A Princess of Mars / Gods of Mars / Warlord of Mars / Thuvia, Maid of Mars / Chessmen of Mars / Master Mind of Mars / Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom #1-7)
114 " Why does The Sheik, my father, not love me, too? "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Collected Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature)
115 " "Only thus may we carry the truth to those without, and though the likelihood of our narrative being given credence is, I grant you, remote, so wedded are mortals to their stupid infatuation for impossible superstitions, we should be craven cowards indeed were we to shirk the plain duty which confronts us. "
116 " I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently," said the captain. "
117 " For an instant I was dumbfounded. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Lost Continent
118 " Waking or sleeping, it seemed that she constantly saw that dark body dropping, swift and silent, into the cold, grim sea. "
119 " Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Son of Tarzan (Tarzan, #4)
120 " My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination—it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron. "