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A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.
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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
-Scott Alexander
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
-Max Beerbohm
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
-Jean De La Bruyere
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
-Frank Moore Colby
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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
-Charles G. Dawes
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Little things affect little minds.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
-Jean Giraudoux
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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
-Henry S. Haskins
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.
-Joseph Heller
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
-Eric Hoffer
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
-James Russell Lowell
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
-John Stuart Mill
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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
-Brian Moore
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If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.
-Tom Murphy
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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.
-Blaise Pascal
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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
-Jim Rohn
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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
-John Ruskin
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Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.
-Walter Russell
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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.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Books about Mediocrity
