“Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.” — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If man spoke only when he had something worth while to say and said that as quickly as possible, ninety-eight per cent of the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head from ear to ear, exposing three rows of long, white tusks. Then endow this creature of your imagination with the agility and ferocity of a half-starved Bengal tiger and the strength of a span of bulls, and you… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched to the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“A thousand times rather face the wild hordes of the dead sea bottoms than meet the eyes of this beautiful young girl and tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
