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| 7 | 257 | View more quotes about whatever">Whatever may be the truth in such matters, my skills proceeded apace. |
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| 7 | 254 | I learned it much as a child learns his native language, in the beginning by ostension, and then by metaphor, correction, refinement, and intuition. |
| 7 | 255 | Even throughout human history on Earth, women, I realized, as I now, must strive to learn the languages of conquerors and masters. |
| 7 | 256 | It seems not unlikely then that the women who most swiftly and successfully learned the languages of their captors and masters, and were then most successful in pleasing and placating them, would be those most likely to survive and breed. |
| 7 | 257 | Whatever may be the truth in such matters, my skills proceeded apace. |
| 7 | 258 | To be sure, I was highly motivated. |
| 7 | 259 | I wished to survive. |
| 7 | 260 | Too, I did not care for the occasional impatient admonition of the switch when I badly misused a word, confusing similar sounds, or found myself guilty of some lapse in grammar. |