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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace. - Mary Wortley Montagu

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English writer, 1689-1762

Born:26th May, 1689
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Starsign: Gemini

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