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121 " We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
122 " It is the duty of a high priestess to instruct, to interpret — according to the creed that others, wiser than herself, have laid down; but there is nothing in the creed which says that she must believe. The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes — no one living knows more of mine than I. (La of Opar) "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
123 " So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan "
124 " And then again, had I declared myself I should have robbed the woman I love of the wealth and position that her marriage to Clayton will now insure to her. I could not have done that—could I, Paul? "
125 " the bridesmaid's hand in his, "Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding." The "
126 " He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
127 " It was on the morning of the second day that the first link was forged in what was destined to form a chain of circumstances ending in a life for one then unborn such as has never been paralleled in the history of man. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , Tarzan: The Complete Adventures
128 " Only once did I perceive a human being, and that was at the intersection of our crossroad with the wide, white turnpike which cuts each cultivated district longitudinally at its exact center. The fellow must have been sleeping beside the road, for, as I came abreast of him, he raised upon one elbow and after a single glance at the approaching caravan leaped shrieking to his feet and fled madly down the road, scaling a nearby wall with the agility of a scared cat. The Tharks paid him not the slightest attention; they were not out upon the warpath, and the only sign that I had that they had seen him was a quickening of the pace of the caravan as we hastened toward the bordering desert which marked our entrance into the realm of Tal Hajus. "
129 " It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Chessmen of Mars (Barsoom #5)
130 " As a matter of fact I presume I gave little attention to seeking an excuse, for I love a good fight too well to need any other reason for joining in when one is afoot. So "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
131 " Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , Thuvia, Maid of Mars
132 " I have long had in mind a plan to thwart death, but it required another with skill equal to mine—two such might live for ever. I have selected you to be that other, for reasons that I already have explained—they are undefiled by sentimentalism. I did not choose you because I love you, or because I feel friendship for you, or because I think that you love me, or feel friendship towards me. I chose you because I knew that of all the inhabitants of a world you were the one least likely to fail me. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The John Carter of Mars Collection (7 Novels/Bonus Audiobook Links)
133 " It is quite simple, being nothing more than a radium generator diffusing radio-activity in all directions to a distance of a hundred yards or so from the flier. Should "
134 " Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her "
135 " I am like my father—witless in matters of the heart, and of a poor way with women; yet the jewels that strew these royal garden paths—the trees, the flowers, the sward—all must have read the love that has filled my heart since first my eyes were made new by imaging your perfect face and form; so how could you alone have been blind to it? "
136 " Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat. "
137 " ...and also with sufficient good judgment to appreciate that while he might enjoy the contemplation of his superiority to the masses, there was little likelihood of the masses being equally entranced by the same cause. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Son of Tarzan (Tarzan, #4)
138 " But the wireless," asked Momulla. "What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?" "Oh yes," replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. "Oh yes! You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus. It lets them talk to other ships hundreds of miles away, and it lets them listen to all that is said on these other ships. "
139 " The luminosity below me seemed confined directly to the area to be lighted; there was no diffusion of light upward or beyond the limits the lamps were designed to light. This was effected, I was told, by lamps designed upon principles resulting from ages of investigation of the properties of light waves and the laws governing them which permit Barsoomian scientists to confine and control light as we confine and control matter. The light waves leave the lamp, pass along a prescribed circuit and return to the lamp. There is no waste nor, strange this seemed to me, are there any dense shadows when lights are properly installed and adjusted, for the waves in passing around objects to return to the lamp, illuminate all sides of them. The "
140 " I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own. "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)