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Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)

I did not expect to win the day. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #149)
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17 149 I did not expect to win the day.

Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)

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17 146 I View more quotes about wondered">wondered if my plans had been good ones, and I told myself I did not know that, either.
17 147 There were so many thousands of factors, impossible to foresee, so much that might alter, or shift unaccountably.
17 148 I knew Chenbar to be a brilliant Ubar and captain, but even he, the brilliant Chenbar, could not well have understood our plans, our dispositions and our ventures, for we ourselves, until hours before, had not known with what we might work and how it might be used.
17 149 I did not expect to win the day.
17 150 It seemed to me a fool's choice that I had not, when it had been possible, fled Port Kar.
17 151 Surely many captains, of the council and otherwise, had done so, their holds filled with their chained slaves and secured treasures.
17 152 Why had I not fled? Why had not these others? Were all men fools? Now men would die.
I wondered if my plans had been good ones, and I told myself I did not know that, either. There were so many thousands of factors, impossible to foresee, so much that might alter, or shift unaccountably. I knew Chenbar to be a brilliant Ubar and captain, but even he, the brilliant Chenbar, could not well have understood our plans, our dispositions and our ventures, for we ourselves, until hours before, had not known with what we might work and how it might be used. I did not expect to win the day. It seemed to me a fool's choice that I had not, when it had been possible, fled Port Kar. Surely many captains, of the council and otherwise, had done so, their holds filled with their chained slaves and secured treasures. Why had I not fled? Why had not these others? Were all men fools? Now men would die. - (Raiders of Gor)