A small wooden figure with a braid stands in front of a row of plain grey wooden figures.

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Abraham Lincoln

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker jokingly treats the abundance of ordinary-looking people as evidence of divine preference. Plainness becomes a sign of being favoured rather than overlooked. The reasoning offers consolation through wit, turning a common source of insecurity into something the creator apparently chose in great quantity.

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