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The last member of the party to disembark was a girl of about nineteen, and it was the young man who stood at the boat's prow to lift her high and dry upon land. She gave him a brave and pretty smile of thanks, but no words passed between them.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes (1912)

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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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