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If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.
If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.
Approximate author period: c. 1912 AD · modern
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- Edgar Rice Burroughs
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- Approximate author period: c. 1912 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Edgar Rice Burroughs: documented activity in 1912. Wikidata Q148234, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148234 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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