Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

"P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still."

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

"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."

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

"Teach me to speak the language of men."

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

"p 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face in the same primeval forest. That we are here today evidences their victory."

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

"P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason."

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

"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."

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes