Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 5 | 678 | Too, I thought, how foolish to look for loyalty amongst the disloyal, to hope for honor from those who were without honor. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 5 | 675 | "Might she not have loyal retainers?" I asked. |
| 5 | 676 | "Men who would die for her?" "None would stand by her," said a fellow, "once she no longer stood within the palisade of foreign spears". |
| 5 | 677 | "She was despised," said another, "even by those welcomed within the chambers of her treason". |
| 5 | 678 | Too, I thought, how foolish to look for loyalty amongst the disloyal, to hope for honor from those who were without honor. |
| 5 | 679 | Would the ultimate motivation of the conspirator not be the sanctity of his own skin? Frightened urts will turn on their fellows and lacerate them. |
| 5 | 680 | They will kill one another for a drop of blood. |
| 5 | 681 | Betrayal is a not infrequent behavior, and it is one to which one may easily become habituated. |
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"Might she not have loyal retainers?" I asked.
"Men who would die for her?" "None would stand by her," said a fellow, "once she no longer stood within the palisade of foreign spears".
"She was despised," said another, "even by those welcomed within the chambers of her treason".
Too, I thought, how foolish to look for loyalty amongst the disloyal, to hope for honor from those who were without honor.
Would the ultimate motivation of the conspirator not be the sanctity of his own skin? Frightened urts will turn on their fellows and lacerate them.
They will kill one another for a drop of blood.
Betrayal is a not infrequent behavior, and it is one to which one may easily become habituated.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 5)