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| 22 | 46 | He was View more quotes about neither">neither legalistic nor rule-bound, but, too, he was neither antinomian nor iconoclastic. |
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| 22 | 43 | He thought for himself. |
| 22 | 44 | How few men and women of Earth, I thought, did that. |
| 22 | 45 | Is not acquiescence superior to inquiry? Is not cowardice, rather than simple discretion, the better part of valor? Is not conformity to prescribed falsehood less perilous than the seeking of truth? In any event, with respect to the enforcement of commands, customs, and such, the pit master was selective. |
| 22 | 46 | He was neither legalistic nor rule-bound, but, too, he was neither antinomian nor iconoclastic. |
| 22 | 47 | He would neither agree to be the same, as most, nor disagree merely to be different, as some. |
| 22 | 48 | He would think for himself; he was such a man. |
| 22 | 49 | And so, for whatever reason—whether he had understood and been forgiving of a slave's desperate concern to discover in what city she served, whether he had been tolerant of an Earth-girl slave's naive foolishness, whether he was fond in his rough way of her, and thought he would this time excuse her indiscretion, whether he had simply seen no point in punishing me, whether he thought the whole business beneath his attention, or perhaps simply, as I suspected, because he had other things to attend to, which more concerned him—he had not beaten me. |