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Providence has made great men of unattractive or undersized physical appearance, or made them crippled, hunchbacked, lame, and so on, apparently in order to give the mob a striking lesson that men are not to be judged by outer appearance alone but much more by inner worth.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 3 : Laws and Patterns of Experience > # 390