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18 quotesA man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.
Mediocrity
German Proverb
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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Mediocrity
Henry S. Haskins
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If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.
Mediocrity
Tom Murphy
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Mediocrity
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Little things affect little minds.
Mediocrity
Benjamin Disraeli
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Mediocrity
Benjamin Disraeli
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Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.
Mediocrity
Walter Russell
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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Mediocrity
Charles G. Dawes
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Mediocrity
William M. Winans
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Mediocrity
Sir Max Beerbohm
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Mediocrity
Jean Giraudoux
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The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.
Mediocrity
Source Unknown
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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Mediocrity
Henry David Thoreau
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Mediocrity
Eric Hoffer
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Mediocrity
Thomas Carlyle
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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
Mediocrity
Brian Moore
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Mediocrity
Peter F. Drucker
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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
Mediocrity
John Ruskin
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun