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For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.

— 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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