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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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

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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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Little things affect little minds. – Benjamin Disraeli

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

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