Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 69 | It was expected of them. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 66 | It was not View more quotes about regarded">regarded as dignified for a warrior to be too expert with letters, such being a task beneath warriors. |
| 16 | 67 | To have a scribe's skills would tend to embarrass a man of arms, and tend to lower his prestige among his peers. |
| 16 | 68 | Many of the north, then, were rather proud of their illiteracy, or semi-illiteracy. |
| 16 | 69 | It was expected of them. |
| 16 | 70 | It honored them. |
| 16 | 71 | His tools were not the pen and parchment, but the sword, the bow, the ax and spear. |
| 16 | 72 | Besides simple runes, the boy in the north is also taught tallying, counting, addition and subtraction, for such may be of use in trading or on the farm. |
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It was not regarded as dignified for a warrior to be too expert with letters, such being a task beneath warriors.
To have a scribe's skills would tend to embarrass a man of arms, and tend to lower his prestige among his peers.
Many of the north, then, were rather proud of their illiteracy, or semi-illiteracy.
It was expected of them.
It honored them.
His tools were not the pen and parchment, but the sword, the bow, the ax and spear.
Besides simple runes, the boy in the north is also taught tallying, counting, addition and subtraction, for such may be of use in trading or on the farm.
- (Marauders of Gor)