People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
Mary Wortley MontaguNature 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