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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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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
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A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
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Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
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Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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It is a sign of mediocrity to have settled opinions on unsettled subjects.
The maxims of Marmaduke -
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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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.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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