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| 16 | 738 | View more quotes about certainly">Certainly there are many things of interest, and worth talking about, or at least very pleasant to talk about, and delightful to talk about, other than problems of agriculture and engineering. |
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| 16 | 735 | It is hard to stop them sometimes, they love so to talk. |
| 16 | 736 | Often masters charge them with prattling endlessly, mindlessly and interminably. |
| 16 | 737 | But that charge, I think, is unfair. |
| 16 | 738 | Certainly there are many things of interest, and worth talking about, or at least very pleasant to talk about, and delightful to talk about, other than problems of agriculture and engineering. |
| 16 | 739 | And do not men speak among themselves, too? Are they really so different? Certainly slave girls delight in conversation. |
| 16 | 740 | They love to talk to one another, and to their masters, until perhaps silenced. |
| 16 | 741 | There are few slave girls, joined together, perhaps met at the fountain, or in marketing, or at the tubs, or such places, who do not relish a lengthy, lively, competitive, sparkling chat, and often the longer the better. |