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I verily believe that a man’s way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars (1917)

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

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