“I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs , book A Princess of Mars

Source: A Princess of Mars (1917), Chapter 14

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American writer 1875–1950

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