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| 12 | 770 | I View more quotes about think">think I would have preferred to choose my own master, but that is perhaps only because I remembered one from long ago, one before whom I had knelt even before my body had grown used to bonds of iron, one whom I had never forgotten, one whom I had failed to please, one whose whip I had kissed. |
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| 12 | 767 | And here, on this world, I was owned. |
| 12 | 768 | To be sure, I would have preferred a private master. |
| 12 | 769 | You might think, incidentally, that all of us would prefer to choose our own master, and not merely a private master, but an individual master, but that is not true. |
| 12 | 770 | I think I would have preferred to choose my own master, but that is perhaps only because I remembered one from long ago, one before whom I had knelt even before my body had grown used to bonds of iron, one whom I had never forgotten, one whom I had failed to please, one whose whip I had kissed. |
| 12 | 771 | But some of us, at least, would prefer not to choose our own master, but, rather, to have one imposed upon us, whom we must then, in the fullness of our bondage, willing or not, strive to please. |
| 12 | 772 | Indeed, had I not met a particular man, one I well remembered, I, myself, might have preferred this latter alternative. |
| 12 | 773 | I did, of course, hope to have a kind master, or, at least, one as kindly as was compatible with the clear, strict relationship in which we stood to one another. |