Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 29 | View more quotes about doubtless">Doubtless each believes her standard will be victorious and she will return in honor to her city. |
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 26 | This may seem a cruel sport but some regard it as superior to a war; surely it is cleaner and there is less loss of life; this method of settling disputes, incidentally, is not used if it is felt that honor is somehow involved in the disagreement. |
| 3 | 27 | Honor is important to Goreans, in a way that those of Earth might find hard to understand; for example, those of Earth find it natural that men should go to war over matters of gold and riches, but not honor; the Gorean, contrariwise, is more willing to submit matters of honor to the adjudication of steel than he is matters of riches and gold; there is a simple explanation for this; honor is more important to him. |
| 3 | 28 | Strangely the girls of the cities are eager to participate in this sport. |
| 3 | 29 | Doubtless each believes her standard will be victorious and she will return in honor to her city. |
| 3 | 30 | The young man brushed past me. |
| 3 | 31 | The girl's hair was still bound, knotted, on her head; it had not yet even been loosened, as that of a slave girl. |
| 3 | 32 | Looped about her neck, locked, was a slender, common, gray-steel slave collar. |
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This may seem a cruel sport but some regard it as superior to a war; surely it is cleaner and there is less loss of life; this method of settling disputes, incidentally, is not used if it is felt that honor is somehow involved in the disagreement.
Honor is important to Goreans, in a way that those of Earth might find hard to understand; for example, those of Earth find it natural that men should go to war over matters of gold and riches, but not honor; the Gorean, contrariwise, is more willing to submit matters of honor to the adjudication of steel than he is matters of riches and gold; there is a simple explanation for this; honor is more important to him.
Strangely the girls of the cities are eager to participate in this sport.
Doubtless each believes her standard will be victorious and she will return in honor to her city.
The young man brushed past me.
The girl's hair was still bound, knotted, on her head; it had not yet even been loosened, as that of a slave girl.
Looped about her neck, locked, was a slender, common, gray-steel slave collar.
- (Beasts of Gor)