Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Mediocrity
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
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We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.
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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!
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