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"He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word."
"We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose."
"I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre."
"There is only good art and mediocre art."
"To be popular I must be mediocre."
"All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value."
"No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments."