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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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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Only the mediocre are always at their best. – Jean Giraudoux

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

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If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people. – Tom Murphy

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