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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-gun

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. – James Russell Lowell

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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 poets bombast! – Jean De La Bruyere

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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. – Eric Hoffer

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