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The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Numbers, Chiefs, Distinction
Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.42
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.