“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
Conversation with private secretary John Hay (23 December 1863), describing a dream Lincoln had that evening, in Abraham Lincoln : A History (1890) by John Hay
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“Lord M. What religion is he of?
Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ‘em both a little bit naive.”
“The Begat” in Finian’s Rainbow (1946).