Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 49 | 29 | I think few of them would have regarded the "pen" as "mightier than the sword". |
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 49 | 26 | I had seen occasional scribes on the streets, at given corners, where they, for their fee, usually in tarsk-bits, would read or transcribe letters. |
| 49 | 27 | Many Goreans of the lower castes could not read and write. |
| 49 | 28 | Interestingly, some Goreans of the upper castes, notably the Warriors, prided themselves on their lack of "letters," regarding reading and writing as scribes' work and beneath their dignity. |
| 49 | 29 | I think few of them would have regarded the "pen" as "mightier than the sword". |
| 49 | 30 | Their pen, so to speak, was the sword, and their ink, blood. |
| 49 | 31 | Certainly in any contest of the pen against the sword, one supposes it might be judicious to wager on the sword. |
| 49 | 32 | It tends to be longer and sharper, and often dictates what the pen will write. |
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I had seen occasional scribes on the streets, at given corners, where they, for their fee, usually in tarsk-bits, would read or transcribe letters.
Many Goreans of the lower castes could not read and write.
Interestingly, some Goreans of the upper castes, notably the Warriors, prided themselves on their lack of "letters," regarding reading and writing as scribes' work and beneath their dignity.
I think few of them would have regarded the "pen" as "mightier than the sword".
Their pen, so to speak, was the sword, and their ink, blood.
Certainly in any contest of the pen against the sword, one supposes it might be judicious to wager on the sword.
It tends to be longer and sharper, and often dictates what the pen will write.
- (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 49)