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  • La mort n'est que pour les me  diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

    - Alfred Jarry
      Gestes et opinions du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien, vol.8, pt.37.

  • A high church for the true mediocre.

    - Norman Kingsley Mailer
      Of the FBI. The Presidential Papers,'Sixth Presidential Paper'.

  •    If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.

    -Tom (Thomas) S Murphy
      In Fortune, 6 May.

  •    Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists:Titles'.

  • A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

    - Logan Pearsall Smith
    Afterthoughts,'Art and Letters'.

  • Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
    Virginibus Puerisque,'Crabbed Age andYouth'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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