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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 Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• intolerable
• second-rate
• pompously
• declaimed
• bombast
• speech

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