Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 26 | 100 | How View more quotes about often">often I had been ignoble, drunken, cruel, petty, and unworthy. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 26 | 97 | I, at least, was no hero, no creature of fame. |
| 26 | 98 | How often I had been weak, frail, and troubled. |
| 26 | 99 | How often I had been confused, and frightened. |
| 26 | 100 | How often I had been ignoble, drunken, cruel, petty, and unworthy. |
| 26 | 101 | How often had I fallen short of my codes! How striking are the enlargements of time! And one supposes, as well, that there must be a thousand heroes, ten thousand heroes, better men, nobler men, who have no songs. |
| 26 | 102 | But they are there in history, a part of her, and without them she would be different, and poorer. |
| 26 | 103 | Perhaps the singers might compose a new song, a song for those who have no songs. |
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I, at least, was no hero, no creature of fame.
How often I had been weak, frail, and troubled.
How often I had been confused, and frightened.
How often I had been ignoble, drunken, cruel, petty, and unworthy.
How often had I fallen short of my codes! How striking are the enlargements of time! And one supposes, as well, that there must be a thousand heroes, ten thousand heroes, better men, nobler men, who have no songs.
But they are there in history, a part of her, and without them she would be different, and poorer.
Perhaps the singers might compose a new song, a song for those who have no songs.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)