Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The She-goats and their Beards

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London: George Routledge and Sons, page 184

THE SHE-GOATS AND THEIR BEARDS.

The She-goats having obtained by request from Jupiter the favour of a beard, the He-goats, sorely displeased, made complaint that the females equalled them in dignity. "Suffer them" said Jupiter, "to enjoy an empty honour, and to assume the badge of your nobler sex, so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage."

It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit should be like us in outside appearances.