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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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    Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals—morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask.†  (source)
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    Fortunately for him she had on the other side Lord Faudel, a most intelligent middle-aged mediocrity, as bald as a Ministerial statement in the House of Commons, with whom she was conversing in that intensely earnest manner which is the one unpardonable error, as he remarked once himself, that all really good people fall into, and from which none of them ever quite escape.†  (source)
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    They wouldn't know mediocrity if it punched them right in their fat faces.†  (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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    The strength of this immutable desire saved her from the mediocrity and sadness of her fate.†  (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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    He vanished without a trace-into the great unknown of mediocrity.†  (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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    He knew that Ida was puzzled and irritated by the mediocrity of his response.†  (source)
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    I assure you we can't bear mediocrities.†  (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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    Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx.†  (source)
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