There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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