So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions. — 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
“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
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
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share
“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
“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
“Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head from ear… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.” — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share
“He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share
