#latitude

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. ↗

— Don Marquis

#epigram #like #newspaper #platitude #stroke

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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