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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Truth
James Baldwin

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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Proverbs
Aldous Huxley

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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
Platitudes
Adlai E. Stevenson

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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Humor
Lionel Strachey

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Platitudes
Oscar Wilde

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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Literature
Thornton Wilder

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun