#mediocrities

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

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Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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