"As a rule, the man who can..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
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“Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.”
“All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.”
“The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.”
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“To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.”
“To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.”
“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”