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| 7 | 64 | How inordinately View more quotes about precious">precious and desirable they are! How inevitable it is to relish them, and strive to possess them! How comprehensible that they should be sought and secured, roped and chained, that they should be bought and sold, that they should be branded and collared, that there be no mistaking them; how natural and perfect that they should be owned and mastered. |
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| 7 | 61 | One could listen, too, for the rustle of chains, as they might move about, or thrash on the straw in their misery. |
| 7 | 62 | One may silence slaves by going amongst them with a whip, but, compassionately, it had not been done. |
| 7 | 63 | They were not, after all, males, sturdy quarry slaves, hardened oar slaves, and such, but females, mere females, miserable and pathetic, soft and small, helpless in their collars and shackles, only frightened slave-block goods, so desirably and wonderfully different from men. |
| 7 | 64 | How inordinately precious and desirable they are! How inevitable it is to relish them, and strive to possess them! How comprehensible that they should be sought and secured, roped and chained, that they should be bought and sold, that they should be branded and collared, that there be no mistaking them; how natural and perfect that they should be owned and mastered. |
| 7 | 65 | It is what they are for. |
| 7 | 66 | Nature has designed their soft lips to be pressed to the feet of men. |
| 7 | 67 | Tersites, master of the ship, and master shipwright, to whose specifications the great ship had been built, had refused to pour oil, and wine, and salt into the sea. |