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Saint-Marc Girardin has uttered one phrase which
will endure: `Let us be mediocre!'
Let us put this beside the words of Robespierre:
`Those who do not believe in the immortality of their
being pass judgement upon themselves'.
This phrase of Saint-Marc Girardin implies an
immense hatred of the sublime.
Whoever sees Saint-Marc Girardin walking in the
street is reminded immediately of a fat goose, full of
self-conceit, but bewildered and waddling along the
high road in front of the stage-coach.
