Exactly. Instead of breeding for such obvious attributes your people should have concentrated on more important things—treachery, cunning, proper table manners.
What would you like, Jaguar?
The usual: hundreds of grandchildren, utter domination of known space, and the pleasure of hearing that all my enemies have died in terrible, highly improbable accidents that cannot be connected to me. And you?
[Laughing:] The usual.
Field Marshall Charlemagne Bolivar,
Archduke of the unified Sabra-Jaguar Pride,
Regent of the Twin Moons of Avox and Ivox,
Chancellor of the Kingiu, etc., to
Tyr Anasazi out of Victoria by Barbarossa
son of Temujin of the Kodiak pride
on what’s important in life
Andromeda, “Into the Labyrinth.”
11:31:41 PM 
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