The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
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