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H L Mencken
: The 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.
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H L Mencken quote- The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea...
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The average is that which no person quite ever is.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you.
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Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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Leroy Satchel Paige :
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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
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Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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