Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 5 | 75 | Doubtless they selected their human agents with an eye to probity and utility, not nobility, not honor. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 5 | 72 | "Perhaps I am an unlikely agent," he said. |
| 5 | 73 | "Who am I to know? One might say the same of you, if you are indeed an agent. |
| 5 | 74 | Who is to tell Priest-Kings who will be their instruments? Are you privy to their councils, can you read the mists, the fogs and clouds, which hover about the Sardar?" I supposed it was possible that this man might be an agent of Priest-Kings. |
| 5 | 75 | Doubtless they selected their human agents with an eye to probity and utility, not nobility, not honor. |
| 5 | 76 | Too, the moralities of Priest-Kings might not be those of men, or of Kurii. |
| 5 | 77 | Too, I knew there was a new dynasty in the Nest. |
| 5 | 78 | The remnants of the older order might, by now, dispossessed and superseded, neglected and scorned, have long ago sought the pleasures of the Golden Beetle. |
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"Perhaps I am an unlikely agent," he said.
"Who am I to know? One might say the same of you, if you are indeed an agent.
Who is to tell Priest-Kings who will be their instruments? Are you privy to their councils, can you read the mists, the fogs and clouds, which hover about the Sardar?" I supposed it was possible that this man might be an agent of Priest-Kings.
Doubtless they selected their human agents with an eye to probity and utility, not nobility, not honor.
Too, the moralities of Priest-Kings might not be those of men, or of Kurii.
Too, I knew there was a new dynasty in the Nest.
The remnants of the older order might, by now, dispossessed and superseded, neglected and scorned, have long ago sought the pleasures of the Golden Beetle.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 5)