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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. – Joseph Heller

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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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A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet. – Proverb

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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. – Benjamin Disraeli

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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. – John Ruskin

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