It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep
