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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 39100 |
| QUOTATION: | Platitude—An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 617, Knopf (1949). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Mencken Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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