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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.