Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 93 | How precious it View more quotes about must">must be, that so many men are willing to pay its price. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 20 | 90 | We could not detect pain, misery, and greed. |
| 20 | 91 | We could not feel loneliness and woe. |
| 20 | 92 | And yet, for all these things, which so afflict so many of its own, how impressive is the city. |
| 20 | 93 | How precious it must be, that so many men are willing to pay its price. |
| 20 | 94 | I wondered why this was, I a voyager and soldier, more fond of the tumultuous sea and the wind-swept field than the street and plaza. |
| 20 | 95 | Perhaps because it is alive, like drums and trumpets. |
| 20 | 96 | To be near it or within it, to be stirred by its life, to call its cylinders their own, is for many reward enough. |
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We could not detect pain, misery, and greed.
We could not feel loneliness and woe.
And yet, for all these things, which so afflict so many of its own, how impressive is the city.
How precious it must be, that so many men are willing to pay its price.
I wondered why this was, I a voyager and soldier, more fond of the tumultuous sea and the wind-swept field than the street and plaza.
Perhaps because it is alive, like drums and trumpets.
To be near it or within it, to be stirred by its life, to call its cylinders their own, is for many reward enough.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)