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«Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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Mediocrity,
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instantly, recognizes
«The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.»
«Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.»
«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!»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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bombast, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, frigid, intolerable, pompously
«Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.»
«The height of mediocrity is still low.»
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