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Fyodor Dostoevsky1 quote
Worst of all I fear mediocrity. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1867
Joseph Heller1 quote
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. — Joseph Heller · 1961