Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H.L. Mencken in Prejudices: Second Series (1920)
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Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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