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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of "artistic" expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

Alfred North Whitehead

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

Emily Post