Thus does a wise peasantry console itself under adverse physical circumstances, and, by a startling democratic process, the defects of the majority decide the type of beauty.
聪明的乡民就这样在相貌不占优势时安慰自己,并以一种惊人的民主程序,让多数人的缺点决定美的标准。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes · I Have a Goad —