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Mediocrity (n.) consoles ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠itself that genius is luck: had the subject not been taken, it too would be Homer — so its obscurity is only an error on the part of the world.

Mediocrity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a distinction too, and a defilement if someone whose distinction is being like most people never rises above it.

Mediocrity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not made extraordinary by being lived: to call it so would be idolizing triviality — one must ask with what intensity it is lived.

Mediocrity (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠claimed many who gave up youth's flight for the stooping gait of a four-footed beast, and its reckless race for the safety of the pedestrian on its highway — I wonder if they all became wiser.

Mediocrity (n.) sells ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an indulgence that only the coward buys, by being like the majority.