Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 140 | But View more quotes about little">little good had it done me. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 137 | Samos of Port Kar had purchased Talena, as a mere slave, from two panther girls, obtaining her with ease in this manner while I had risked my life in the forest. |
| 1 | 138 | I laughed. |
| 1 | 139 | But I had recollected my honor. |
| 1 | 140 | But little good had it done me. |
| 1 | 141 | Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarries of Tyros? I sat in the darkness and wondered on honor, and courage. |
| 1 | 142 | If they were shams, I thought them most precious shams. |
| 1 | 143 | How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground. |
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Samos of Port Kar had purchased Talena, as a mere slave, from two panther girls, obtaining her with ease in this manner while I had risked my life in the forest.
I laughed.
But I had recollected my honor.
But little good had it done me.
Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarries of Tyros? I sat in the darkness and wondered on honor, and courage.
If they were shams, I thought them most precious shams.
How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground.
- (Marauders of Gor)