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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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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. – Joseph Heller

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

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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. – Blaise Pascal

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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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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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