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! ✨ Of Books. Characters, Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.
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