Quote#Nature
It is all to the good that insignificant-looking persons should do…
Quote byE. V. Lucas · 1868–1938
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Loiterer's Harvest (1913), "Surprises", p. 17.
English (original)
It is all to the good that insignificant-looking persons should do great things, but human nature will ever resent it. We are such determined idealists, we have such a passion for symmetry, that our first wish will always be that handsome does and handsome is shall be one.
— E. V. Lucas
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