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With a trustful hope that this statement may be accepted in extenuation of the inevitable platitudinism down the gently inclined plane of which I feel myself impelled to slide into my memories, I will endeavor to bring some of the latter to the surface.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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All this is of course mere platitudinism, and has been said many times more forcibly and effectively by others, but the danger of all platitudes is that their force is dulled by repetition, and their admitted truth allowed to lie dormant.
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