Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 262 | Now, the priest-kings, I feared, had become old. |
| 1 | 263 | I think that perhaps one is old only when one has lost the desire to know. |
| 1 | 264 | Not until one has lost one's curiosity, and concern, can one be said to be truly old. |
| 1 | 265 | I had two friends, in particular, who were priest-kings, Misk, and Kusk. |
| 1 | 266 | I did not think that they, in this sense, could ever grow old. |
| 1 | 267 | But they were only two, two of a handful of survivors of a once mighty race, that of the lofty and golden priest-kings. |
| 1 | 268 | To be sure, I had managed, long ago, to return the last female egg of priest-kings to the Nest. |
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Now, the priest-kings, I feared, had become old.
I think that perhaps one is old only when one has lost the desire to know.
Not until one has lost one's curiosity, and concern, can one be said to be truly old.
I had two friends, in particular, who were priest-kings, Misk, and Kusk.
I did not think that they, in this sense, could ever grow old.
But they were only two, two of a handful of survivors of a once mighty race, that of the lofty and golden priest-kings.
To be sure, I had managed, long ago, to return the last female egg of priest-kings to the Nest.
- (Savages of Gor, Chapter )