Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
More Quotes from Ellen Glasgow:
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
Ellen Glasgow
... every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
Ellen Glasgow
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Ellen Glasgow
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