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She was a dear girl and a stanch and true comrade—more like a man than a woman.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs The Land That Time Forgot (1918)

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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

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The poor dear cannot differentiate between erudition and wisdom.

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But metaphor, however poetic, never slaked a dry throat.

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I am Tarzan, King of the Apes, mighty hunter, mighty fighter. In all the jungle there is none so great.

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A warrior can change his metal, but not his heart.

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