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Robert Louis Stevenson
: 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.
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If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.
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Napoleon Bonaparte :
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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Frank Lloyd Wright :
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Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
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Charles G Dawes :
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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
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Margaret Mead :
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible.
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Margaret Mead :
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
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Thomas Carlyle :
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
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Benjamin Disraeli :
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Jean Giraudoux :
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
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Henry S Haskins :
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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
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Robert G Ingersoll :
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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Robert Louis Stevenson:
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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Robert Louis Stevenson:
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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Robert Louis Stevenson:
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
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Robert Louis Stevenson:
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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
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Robert Louis Stevenson:
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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