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What a perfect creature! (Edgar Rice Burroughs)



What a perfect creature! There could be naught of cruelty or baseness beneath that godlike exterior. Never, she thought had such a man strode the earth since God created the first in his own image.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (from Tarzan Of the Apes)

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