...What he writesis a continual protest against shallowness and mediocrity... 
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906」
...Patient, persistent mediocrity is expressed bythe Red-eye's song, and only his nasal, petulant call-note,whang, suggests that he is not altogether satisfied with lifeas he finds it...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...Indeed, perfection in an inferior style may be reasonably preferredto mediocrity in the highest walks of art...
Joshua Reynolds 「Seven Discourses on Art」
...In our case, it is still moreincumbent on the historian to give mediocrity a place along with theeminent and most excellent...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (of 6)」
...When he wrought without such assistancethere is a manifest mediocrity in his invention and design; but he isstill a good colourist...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (of 6)」
...It was a maxim with him that the merit of a painter does notconsist in giving to the world a number of works of mediocrity, but afew perfect ones; and hence his pictures are rare...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...It relieves thehighest of their burden, so that mediocrity may be twice blessed,and it makes us a people by luring us to a certain kind of Life...
Anthony M. Ludovici 「Nietzsche and Art」
... Nothing but gloom and mediocrity to dictate human conduct,curtail natural expression, and stifle our best impulses...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
...If any judgment could be hazarded of the quality of the country, at the distance the sloop was at, it might be supposed, from the beauty of the lower head-land, to be somewhat above mediocrity...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2」
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