Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 163 | View more quotes about victory">Victory is often less the fruit of valor than of information, patience, calculation, and cunning. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 160 | Too, despite who holds the field, who decorates the trophy tree at the day's end, a general engagement is often lost, in effect, by both sides. |
| 16 | 161 | Two such victories may destroy an army, and ruin a state. |
| 16 | 162 | Wars are often lost in wholes, and won in bits and pieces. |
| 16 | 163 | Victory is often less the fruit of valor than of information, patience, calculation, and cunning. |
| 16 | 164 | The third wave had now discharged its missiles and was wheeling about, when cries came from below, which drifted up to me. |
| 16 | 165 | I had wheeled the tarn about, to alight at the end of the training plaza, to which, by prearrangement, the cavalry had returned, when I wheeled him about again, puzzled at the confusion below. |
| 16 | 166 | On the observation platform there was much milling about, shouting, cries. |
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Too, despite who holds the field, who decorates the trophy tree at the day's end, a general engagement is often lost, in effect, by both sides.
Two such victories may destroy an army, and ruin a state.
Wars are often lost in wholes, and won in bits and pieces.
Victory is often less the fruit of valor than of information, patience, calculation, and cunning.
The third wave had now discharged its missiles and was wheeling about, when cries came from below, which drifted up to me.
I had wheeled the tarn about, to alight at the end of the training plaza, to which, by prearrangement, the cavalry had returned, when I wheeled him about again, puzzled at the confusion below.
On the observation platform there was much milling about, shouting, cries.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)