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mediocrity
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    His attentions to Miss King were now the consequence of views solely and hatefully mercenary; and the mediocrity of her fortune proved no longer the moderation of his wishes, but his eagerness to grasp at anything.†  (source)
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    They wouldn't know mediocrity if it punched them right in their fat faces.†  (source)
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    The strength of this immutable desire saved her from the mediocrity and sadness of her fate.†  (source)
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    He vanished without a trace-into the great unknown of mediocrity.†  (source)
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    It's why picking the right candidate for a job is so difficult and why, on more occasions than we may care to admit, utter mediocrities sometimes end up in positions of enormous responsibility.†  (source)
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    He knew that Ida was puzzled and irritated by the mediocrity of his response.†  (source)
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    This man would have been notable anywhere: among the thin-hammed, flat-chested mediocrities of Chandrapore he stood out as divine, yet he was of the city, its garbage had nourished him, he would end on its rubbish heaps.†  (source)
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    My unhappiness is due to my mediocrity at the craft in which I once felt I was born to excel.†  (source)
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    With the departure of Randolph the brilliant cabinet that Washington had started with was entirely gone, replaced by men who were by and large mediocrities.†  (source)
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    There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity.†  (source)
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    I assure you we can't bear mediocrities.†  (source)
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    Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.†  (source)
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    Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx.†  (source)
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