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Mediocrity


 "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters
  Ayn Rand

 In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.
  Gustave Flaubert

 In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
  Robert Green Ingersoll

 Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
  Fulton J. Sheen

 Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe
  Benjamin Disraeli

 Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating

 Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating

 Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people
  Joseph Joubert

 Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man
  Horace

 Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions
  William E. Gladstone

 Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

 Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

 The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

 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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