Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 47 | 72 | How then could one blame him in such View more quotes about circumstances">circumstances? Would not the rational agent seize such an opportunity before it was seized by another? Should he not be praised for his initiative, and astuteness? Yet I was muchly discountenanced by his decision. |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 47 | 69 | I found it hard to believe that Desmond of Harfax would have betrayed his fellows. |
| 47 | 70 | He had seemed to suspect that someone might do so. |
| 47 | 71 | If this were inevitable, I supposed he thought the survivor might as well be he. |
| 47 | 72 | How then could one blame him in such circumstances? Would not the rational agent seize such an opportunity before it was seized by another? Should he not be praised for his initiative, and astuteness? Yet I was muchly discountenanced by his decision. |
| 47 | 73 | It did not seem like the Master Desmond I had thought I had known. |
| 47 | 74 | I saw him now as tarnished. |
| 47 | 75 | I had feared I was unworthy to be the slave of so fine a master. |
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I found it hard to believe that Desmond of Harfax would have betrayed his fellows.
He had seemed to suspect that someone might do so.
If this were inevitable, I supposed he thought the survivor might as well be he.
How then could one blame him in such circumstances? Would not the rational agent seize such an opportunity before it was seized by another? Should he not be praised for his initiative, and astuteness? Yet I was muchly discountenanced by his decision.
It did not seem like the Master Desmond I had thought I had known.
I saw him now as tarnished.
I had feared I was unworthy to be the slave of so fine a master.
- (Conspirators of Gor)