Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 63 | Greed and selfishness I now, for the View more quotes about first">first time, understood. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 60 | And then I reminded myself of my own ignobility, my own cruelties and my own cowardice. |
| 9 | 61 | I, too, was of Port Kar. |
| 9 | 62 | I had learned that beneath the hide of men burned the hearts of sleen and tharlarion, and that their moralities and ideals were so many cloaks to conceal the claw and the tooth. |
| 9 | 63 | Greed and selfishness I now, for the first time, understood. |
| 9 | 64 | There is more honesty in Port Kar, I thought, than in all the cities of Gor. |
| 9 | 65 | Here men scorn to sheath the claws of their heart in the pretenses of their mouth. |
| 9 | 66 | Here, in this city, alone of all the cities of Gor, men did not stoop to cant and prattle. |
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And then I reminded myself of my own ignobility, my own cruelties and my own cowardice.
I, too, was of Port Kar.
I had learned that beneath the hide of men burned the hearts of sleen and tharlarion, and that their moralities and ideals were so many cloaks to conceal the claw and the tooth.
Greed and selfishness I now, for the first time, understood.
There is more honesty in Port Kar, I thought, than in all the cities of Gor.
Here men scorn to sheath the claws of their heart in the pretenses of their mouth.
Here, in this city, alone of all the cities of Gor, men did not stoop to cant and prattle.
- (Raiders of Gor)