Quote#Death
Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near…
Quote byEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1875–1950
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 12: Man's Reason.
English (original)
Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now that she was dead, and the playful friends of his childhood grown into fierce and surly brutes he felt that he much preferred the peace and solitude of his cabin to the irksome duties of leadership amongst a horde of wild beasts.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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