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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, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
    —Norman Douglas (1868–1952)

    Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)