Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 260 | Such stories, for they were very old on Gor, View more quotes about probably">probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most Goreans only as the Priest-Kings. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 257 | I smiled. |
| 1 | 258 | Horses and dogs did not exist on Gor. |
| 1 | 259 | Goreans, on the whole, knew them only from legends, which, I had little doubt, owed their origins to forgotten times, to memories brought long ago to Gor from another world. |
| 1 | 260 | Such stories, for they were very old on Gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most Goreans only as the Priest-Kings. |
| 1 | 261 | To be sure, few Priest-Kings, now, entertained such a curiosity nor such an enthusiastic penchant for exploration and adventure. |
| 1 | 262 | Now, the Priest-Kings, I feared, had become old. |
| 1 | 263 | I think that perhaps one is old only when one has lost the desire to know. |
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I smiled.
Horses and dogs did not exist on Gor.
Goreans, on the whole, knew them only from legends, which, I had little doubt, owed their origins to forgotten times, to memories brought long ago to Gor from another world.
Such stories, for they were very old on Gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most Goreans only as the Priest-Kings.
To be sure, few Priest-Kings, now, entertained such a curiosity nor such an enthusiastic penchant for exploration and adventure.
Now, the Priest-Kings, I feared, had become old.
I think that perhaps one is old only when one has lost the desire to know.
- (Savages of Gor)