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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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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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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.