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“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”

James Fenimore Cooper quotes (American Novelist, first to achieve worldwide fame. 1789-1851)

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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 poet's bombast!”

Jean de la Bruyere quotes (French satiric moralist, 1645-1696)

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“Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions”

William E. Gladstone quotes (British Statesman and Prime Minister (1868-1894), and the most prominent man in politics of his time, 1809-1898)

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“In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.”

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Gustave Flaubert quotes (French Novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. 1821-1880)

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“Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man”

Horace quotes (Ancient Roman Poet. 65 BC-8 BC)

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“The height of mediocrity is still low.”

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“Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.”

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“He has lulled himself into a false sense of competence.”

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