+3The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
- H. L. Mencken
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- To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble.But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true ! - H. L. Mencken
- The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. - H. L. Mencken
- The average person thinks he isn’t. - Father Larry Lorenzoni
- Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. - Sydney J. Harris
- Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. - Benjamin Franklin
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