He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of int — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

— Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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