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Definition of Mediocrity
Mediocrity

The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

Moderation; temperance.

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Mediocrity Quotations

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose Bierce

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Blaise Pascal

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

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Mediocrity Translations

mediocrity in Spanish is mediocridad


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