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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
Source: Characters, Of Books, aph. 7, 1688.-- Jean de LaBruyere, (Aug 16 1645-1696), French philosopher, writer; The Theophrastus of France wrote social satire on characters of Theophraste, 1688.
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