Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 49 | 31 | Certainly in any contest of the pen against the sword, one supposes it might be judicious to wager on the sword. |
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 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. |
| 49 | 33 | Four members of the scribes were seated at a table to the side, their papers before them. |
| 49 | 34 | I saw no members of the lower castes present. |
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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.
Four members of the scribes were seated at a table to the side, their papers before them.
I saw no members of the lower castes present.
- (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 49)