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"Poor Adraste," I thought, "how content you might have remained in your humble, modest station, had you but known that your petty vanity and greed might lead to a dangling cage in a Street of Coins". - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 33, Sentence #266)

I could not understand how the peculations of a larcenous clerk, petty and vain, could warrant such concern and attention. How zealous are Goreans! I supposed a principle must be involved, one to be satisfied at all costs, to warrant such a disproportion between expenditure and achievement, between cost and value, between effort and success. Did I not know that the muchly sought, heinous, treasonous daughter of Marlenus of Ar, Talena of Ar, was safe in Jad, under the protection of Lurius, Ubar of Cos, whose schemes she had done so much to forward and abet, I might have dared to suppose it was she, and not a Lady Julia Leta of Ar, who was spoken of so obliquely as the "quarry". "Poor Adraste," I thought, "how content you might have remained in your humble, modest station, had you but known that your petty vanity and greed might lead to a dangling cage in a Street of Coins". "How long until you have assembled those required?" asked the beast. "Not every brigand will do," said the man in the boat. "And agents must be planted, contacts made, spies ensconced, patrols and watches noted and recorded. - (Quarry of Gor)