Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them

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Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know

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I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak, men fight with men when they meet - men of different races - but their weapons are first for the slaying of beasts in the chase and defense. We do not fashion weapons solely for the killing of man as do your peoples. Your country must indeed be a savage country, from which you are fortunate to have escaped to the peace and security of Caspak

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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

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Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude