“Be commonplace and creeping, and you attain all things.”

— Pierre Beaumarchais, book The Barber of Seville

Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout.
Act III, scene vii. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 759-62.
Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

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French playwright diplomat and polymath 1732–1799

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