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| 40 | 30 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps it pleases us even more than the masters to find ourselves naked beneath their tables. |
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| 40 | 27 | In spite of what some in my former world might think, most slaves, sincerely and profoundly, want to be pleasing, and wholly pleasing, to their masters, domestically, socially, and, in particular, sexually. |
| 40 | 28 | Many slaves, it must be understood, love their masters with a love that few free women, with their concern for status, self-image, self-containment, balance, commensuration, and proportion, could equal. |
| 40 | 29 | The slave abandons herself to the master; she is his, not hers. |
| 40 | 30 | Perhaps it pleases us even more than the masters to find ourselves naked beneath their tables. |
| 40 | 31 | We are then near our masters. |
| 40 | 32 | And why should we be elsewhere, or otherwise? We are slaves. |
| 40 | 33 | Indeed, it is in the nature of a privilege to be beneath the masters' tables. |