• 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.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic 1880-1956
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. pleasure
2. because
3. thinks

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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. by : Henry Louis Mencken

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