Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 25 | 98 | For this he had forsworn vanities, or was it, View more quotes about rather">rather, he would sacrifice all for what might prove to be the most evanescent, elusive, and alluring of all vanities, the vanity of vanities, power? I encountered another sentry. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 25 | 95 | He seemed one of the most coldly sane individuals I had ever met. |
| 25 | 96 | In a way he reminded me of Pa-Kur, once master of the Assassins, save that Pa-Kur was not such as to be distracted by flowers, by poetry, the servings of tea, by sake, by the delights of delicate women under contract. |
| 25 | 97 | Pa-Kur had sought power, single-mindedly, at the blade's edge. |
| 25 | 98 | For this he had forsworn vanities, or was it, rather, he would sacrifice all for what might prove to be the most evanescent, elusive, and alluring of all vanities, the vanity of vanities, power? I encountered another sentry. |
| 25 | 99 | The night it seemed, was going well. |
| 25 | 100 | I thought of the assassins of the medieval Middle East. |
| 25 | 101 | The caste of assassins was quite different. |
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He seemed one of the most coldly sane individuals I had ever met.
In a way he reminded me of Pa-Kur, once master of the Assassins, save that Pa-Kur was not such as to be distracted by flowers, by poetry, the servings of tea, by sake, by the delights of delicate women under contract.
Pa-Kur had sought power, single-mindedly, at the blade's edge.
For this he had forsworn vanities, or was it, rather, he would sacrifice all for what might prove to be the most evanescent, elusive, and alluring of all vanities, the vanity of vanities, power? I encountered another sentry.
The night it seemed, was going well.
I thought of the assassins of the medieval Middle East.
The caste of assassins was quite different.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)