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• Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• unpretending
• essentially
• commonplace
• neutrality
• wine-glass
• rinsings

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