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| 33 | 167 | View more quotes about thus">Thus, over millennia, in thousands of venues, the female with suitable linguistic aptitudes entwined within her hereditary coils will tend to be favored by the stern choices of a harsh world. |
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| 33 | 164 | "What might explain it?" asked he with the lantern. |
| 33 | 165 | "Consider women," said Kurik, "small, slight, lovely, desirable, an exciting and ideal form of wealth. |
| 33 | 166 | Are not such creatures esteemed trading goods, suitable plunder, desiderated loot, sought for, and fought for? While men are slain, are they not stripped and led away on their neck ropes? Will they survive, or perish? Surely those who, first, and best, learn the languages of their masters will, on the whole, be most pleasing and survive most frequently. |
| 33 | 167 | Thus, over millennia, in thousands of venues, the female with suitable linguistic aptitudes entwined within her hereditary coils will tend to be favored by the stern choices of a harsh world. |
| 33 | 168 | And these linguistic aptitudes, favoring survival, like beauty and appetition, like the graceful fleetness of the tabuk, the hearing of the larl, the tracking capacity of the sleen, are transmissible. |
| 33 | 169 | And thus women are born for masters". |
| 33 | 170 | "The beast can speak Kur," said he who had admitted us. |