Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best That is our besetting danger. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best That is our besetting danger.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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