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Definition
a commonly repeated or obvious remark made as though it was insightful or instructive
- This is wanting in the police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter.Adventure III — A Case of Identity (3% in)
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