"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy."

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"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."

Beerbohm, Sir Max · Mediocrity · 1 fans >>
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"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."

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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!"

Bruyere, Jean De La · Mediocrity · 0 fans >>
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"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."

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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."

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"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."

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"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."

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"Little things affect little minds."

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"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

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