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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

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

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