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Sunday, June 25, 2023

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
—William Somerset Maugham

Mediocrity is less sensitive than genius, and therefore suffers less under nearly any possible exigency.
—William Winter

Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
—François de La Rochefoucauld

Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful than talented inconsistency.
—Dr. James Hamilton

Mediocrity is excellence to the eyes of mediocre people.

—Joseph Joubert

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
—Max Beerbohm