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| 37 | 190 | "Some men, View more quotes about doubtless">doubtless fools and weaklings," I said, "are particularly subject to this danger, the danger of becoming enamored of a slave. |
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| 37 | 187 | "How so?" said he. |
| 37 | 188 | "I do not claim, of course," I said, "that you are subject to this danger". |
| 37 | 189 | "What danger?" said he. |
| 37 | 190 | "Some men, doubtless fools and weaklings," I said, "are particularly subject to this danger, the danger of becoming enamored of a slave. |
| 37 | 191 | It is quite enough to lust for them, desire them, master them, and rule them, quite enough to rope and chain them, and pleasure yourself with them, as frequently and variously, and as inordinately, as you wish, and derive from their conquest, their helplessness, and submission the thousand satisfactions and delights, the triumphs, of the mastery, of owning and governing such a property, of enjoying such a vulnerable, shapely beast, but it is quite another to care for one". |
| 37 | 192 | "Do you think," he asked, "that I am a fool and weakling?" "In general, no," I said, "but men wiser and stronger than you, I am sure, and men perhaps wiser and stronger than I, have succumbed to eyes bright with tears, a strand of hair brushed piteously aside, a faltering syllable, a trembling lip". |
| 37 | 193 | "But she is Alcinoë," he said. |