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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(1806—1861)

English poetess, "Aurora Leigh"

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

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equal to

[equal to] {adj. phr.} Able to meet, do, or control; able to do something about. * /The situation took quick thinking, but John was equal to it./ * /When a […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

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Elizabeth Gaskell

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