laurels vs mediocrity

laurels

noun
  • Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred to Apollo. 

mediocrity

noun
  • The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard. 

  • An individual with mediocre abilities or achievements. 

How often have the words laurels and mediocrity occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )