Crime Quote by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue”

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It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-…

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“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…

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For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being…

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Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

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“I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell…

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“Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live…

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“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…

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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and…

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“The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched to the…

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“The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly…

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“There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.”

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“A thousand times rather face the wild hordes of the dead sea bottoms than meet the eyes of this beautiful young girl and tell…

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