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| 25 | 1287 | View more quotes about understanding">Understanding this she understands that it is not only appropriate but entirely seemly that she should render deference. |
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| 25 | 1284 | Free persons are immeasurably her superior in status and power. |
| 25 | 1285 | Before them she is legally, socially and economically nothing. |
| 25 | 1286 | Before them she is only an animal, only property. |
| 25 | 1287 | Understanding this she understands that it is not only appropriate but entirely seemly that she should render deference. |
| 25 | 1288 | They are her masters, free persons. |
| 25 | 1289 | Indeed, they are permitting her to live. |
| 25 | 1290 | Whereas the slave may not commonly address the master in terms other than 'Master' or 'my Master', lapses subject to discipline, and whereas she will usually refer to him simply as 'my master' or 'the master' when speaking with others, lapses also subject to discipline, there are times, of course, when she may appropriately speak, even write, if she is literate, his name. |