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Mediocrity is less sensitive than genius, and therefore suffers less under nearly any possible exigency.
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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
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Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.
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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
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Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority have established this.
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful, than talented inconstancy.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The art of putting well into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than true merit achieves.
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The best pedigree in the world won’t sell a lame race horse.
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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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The maxim of Cleobulus, ‘Mediocrity is best,’ has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.
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The most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and our tolerance of the third rate.
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The status quo sucks.
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