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Jean de la Bruyere Quotes about Mediocrity

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I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Jean de la Bruyere
Mediocrity, Sanctuary, Honest

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

Jean de la Bruyere
Mediocrity, Speech, Painting
"Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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

Jean de la Bruyere
Mediocrity, Painting, Public Speaking

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