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I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own.
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In Hastor I have paid a good price to see one of these creatures and now I found myself in a position where I should very gladly pay a good deal more not to see one, but from the noise he was making in the shaft beneath me it appeared to me that he was determined that I should have a free show and he a free meal.
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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.
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From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.
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As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors.
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If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.
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If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.
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Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?
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Whatever I may do to serve you will be prompted solely from selfish motives, since it gives me more pleasure to serve you than not.
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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand
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Like its master, it was entirely devoid of hair, but was of a dark slate color and exceeding smooth and glossy. Its belly was white, and its legs shaded from the slate of its shoulders and hips to a vivid yellow at the feet. The feet themselves were heavily padded and nailless, which fact had also contributed to the noiselessness of their approach, and, in common with a multiplicity of legs, is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars...
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For three days he has pursued me," she said, "through this horrible world. How I have passed through in safety I cannot guess, nor how I have always managed to outdistance him; yet I have done it, until just as you discovered me."
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She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin.
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Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul," concluded Tarzan,"
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THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.
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The scene he witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain.
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A thousand times rather face the wild hordes of the dead sea bottoms than meet the eyes of this beautiful young girl and tell her the thing that I must tell her.
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P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.
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P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question.
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P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.
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P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions
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Seizing a cudgel from the nearest priest, he laid about him like a veritable demon as he forged his rapid way toward the altar. The hand of La had paused at the first noise of interruption. When she saw who the author of it was she went white. She had never been able to fathom the secret of the strange white man's escape from the dungeon in which she had locked him.
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The lion was quite close to him now--but a few paces intervened--he crouched, and then, with a deafening roar, he sprang.
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To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.
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We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness.
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may God help the coward, for cowardice is of a surety its own punishment.
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but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.
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I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people.
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I had learned from Kantos Kan the secret of opening these gates, and in another moment my twenty great fighting men stood within the doomed city of Zodanga.
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sentimentalists have words: love, loyalty, friendship, enmity, jealousy, hate, a thousand others; a waste of words - one word defines them all: self-interest.
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whoever would offer her injury or insult in the future must figure on making a full accounting to me. I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindliness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight.
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do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later. My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes. However that may be,..
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As he passed through the winding corridors and the subterranean apartments, Tarzan saw nothing of the hyenas. "They will return," he said to himself. In the crater between the towering walls Bukawai, cold with terror, trembled, trembled as with ague. "They will return!" he cried, his voice rising to a fright-filled shriek. And they did."
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Formerly they had dwelt in the Belgian Congo until the cruelties of their heartless oppressors had driven them to seek the safety of unexplored solitudes beyond the boundaries of Leopold's domain.
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I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate.
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It is probable, however, that to this fact I owe my life and the remarkable experiences and adventures which befell me during the following ten years.
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Always, everywhere, man is man, nor has he altered greatly beneath his veneer since he scurried into a hole between two rocks to escape the tyrannosaurus six million years ago.
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nothing is too good for the object of their adoration as long as he maintains his position by repeated examples of his skill, strength, and courage.
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guided entirely by telepathic means. This power is wonderfully developed in all Martians, and accounts largely for the simplicity of their language and the relatively few spoken words exchanged even in long conversations.
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Likewise, under Sola's tutelage, I developed my telepathic powers so that I shortly could sense practically everything that went on around me.
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Y la sonrisa es la base de la belleza.
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