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"I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale."
"When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty."
"If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one."
"I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly."
"The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs."
"If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor."
"So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions."
"I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there."
"The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin 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."
"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."
"It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness."
"I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it."
"Golf is a mental disorder."
"Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?"
"You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously"
"Even theories must have foundations."
"Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things"
"As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people."
"We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us."
"I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year."