Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. - Thomas

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

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Mens hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only. – Thomas Carlyle

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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