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"Platitude" Quotes from Famous Books

... try to find things all askew; Don't be afraid of what is new; Nor banish as unsound, untrue, A platitude. ...

— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris

... means," was the good man's reply; "justice is as much the right of the poor as the rich—so is the air we breathe—so is everything." And he put his fingers together again, as was his wont whenever he uttered a philosophical or moral platitude. ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

... with a certain sympathy. It is conceivable that in the British Empire there are anti-British elements whose aims would commonly be classed by the authorities as "mad ambitions," which is what Count Apponyi called the separatist tendencies of the Southern Slavs in Austria-Hungary. But—may the platitude be pardoned!—there is all the difference between the spirit in which the alien rule of the one government was, and of the other is, administered. No doubt there are portions of the British Empire in which a plebiscite would have the same disintegrating ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 • Henry Baerlein

... of this last clause makes us hope that it is simply a platitude, and not intended as witticism, until he removes the possibility of this favorable doubt by immediately asking, "Flows my ...

— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot

... their will. It was, of course, the spirit of retaliation for the iniquities of the British rovers which was condoned by their monarch. In justification of our part of the game during this period of warfare for religious and material ascendancy, we stand by the eternal platitude that in that age we were compelled to act differently from what we should be justified in doing now. Civilization, for instance, so the argument goes, was at a low ebb then. I am not so sure that it did not stand higher ...

— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman

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