Quotation Explorer - 'Platitude'

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. - Stanley Baldwin
Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.
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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