В трилогии классика американской фантастики Э. Берроуза «Марсианские войны» главный герой — землянин Джон Картер, — загадочным способом попав на Марс, встает на защиту империи Гелиума. Обладая необыкновенной силой, храбростью и дипломатическим талантом, он обретает заслуженную славу самого выдающегося воина на Марсе и восстанавливает справедливость в государстве, которое стало его второй родиной.
I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.
Средний человеческий ум не верит тому, чего он не в состоянии постигнуть.
Отчего темнота так усиливает сознание опасности?
In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.
I was ever a good hand with animals, and by inclination, as well as because it brought more lasting and satisfactory results, I was always kind and humane in my dealings with the lower orders.
His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of the highest type.
However, I am not prone to sensitiveness, and the following of a sense of duty, wherever it may lead, has always been a kind of fetich with me throughout my life; which may account for the honors bestowed upon me by three republics and the decorations and friendships of an old and powerful emperor and several lesser kings, in whose service my sword has been red many a time.
...hatred for manual labor has kept them in a semi-barbaric state for countless ages.
I had at least two friends on Mars; a young woman who watched over me with motherly solicitude, and a dumb brute which, as I later came to know, held in its poor ugly carcass more love, more loyalty, more gratitude than could have been found in the entire five million green Martians who rove the deserted cities and dead sea bottoms of Mars.
...the rule that all is fair in war seems to constitute the entire ethics of Martian conflict.