"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities."

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Oscar Wilde

#Mediocrity Quotes #Genius Quotes #Tribute Quotes

“If you really are superior, you don't go around saying you're superior - unless you're Jewish.”
“There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.”
“For my prom I really wanted to wear a bright color - something that was going to pop and stand out.”
“It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.55, Quirk Books
“Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.”
“Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.”
“Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.”
“Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!”

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