Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 31 | How View more quotes about little">little we have learned from the informal garb of Greeks and Romans. |
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 28 | Such garments, I suspected, were a softened heritage, rather than a break from such a heritage, from the repressions of an earlier era in Earth history, repressions now denied but repressions undeniably lingering. |
| 12 | 29 | How scandalized and shamed would be an Earthling to adopt convenient and handsome raiment. |
| 12 | 30 | How ridiculed would such a fellow be. |
| 12 | 31 | How little we have learned from the informal garb of Greeks and Romans. |
| 12 | 32 | Is it truly easier, I wonder, to adopt columns and arches, philosophy and poetry, mathematics and medicine, and law, than a rational mode of dress. |
| 12 | 33 | But the Greeks and Romans were proud peoples, so untutored as to be unapologetic concerning their humanity. |
| 12 | 34 | It is little wonder they are so alien to the men of Earth. |
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Such garments, I suspected, were a softened heritage, rather than a break from such a heritage, from the repressions of an earlier era in Earth history, repressions now denied but repressions undeniably lingering.
How scandalized and shamed would be an Earthling to adopt convenient and handsome raiment.
How ridiculed would such a fellow be.
How little we have learned from the informal garb of Greeks and Romans.
Is it truly easier, I wonder, to adopt columns and arches, philosophy and poetry, mathematics and medicine, and law, than a rational mode of dress.
But the Greeks and Romans were proud peoples, so untutored as to be unapologetic concerning their humanity.
It is little wonder they are so alien to the men of Earth.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor)