"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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“Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?”
“The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.”
“Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.”
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“No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.”
“To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.”
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”