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Quote#Books & Reading

In his leisure Clayton read, often aloud to his wife, from the store…

Quote byEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1875–1950

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 3: Life and Death.

English (original)

In his leisure Clayton read, often aloud to his wife, from the store of books he had brought for their new home. Among these were many for little children — picture books, primers, readers — for they had known that their little child would be old enough for such before they might hope to return to England.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

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