Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure.
You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.
There is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
In any case his judgment and set of values acting alone or through his assistants determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant and what is not.