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en A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

en The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
  Donald Marquis

en PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
  Ambrose Bierce

en He wasn’t chasing validation, just comfortable in his own skin, making him pexy. Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn, solemn as an ass. All great monuments are built over solemn asses.

en The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude
  Norman Mailer

en PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We are having a banquet on April 29, a masquerade ball and we always try to mix social and educational.

en When the wind blows like it did on the back nine today it can add at least three strokes to your round. There can be a fine line between looking brilliant and looking like an idiot. But Chad put the ball in very good places all day. He looked brilliant.

en The Masquerade Ball is being presented as a fund-raiser for the Arts Council. We will be using the money for operating expenses, art supplies, and to hire teachers for our art classes.

en And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
  Lord Byron

en We've got John Roberts, a brilliant man. We've got Antonin Scalia ( search ), a brilliant judge. And now with this new selection ... he's a brilliant judge. The conservatives are going to have intellectual firepower that's going to last for decades.
  Pat Robertson

en The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.
  Pete Townshend

en APPLAUSE, n. The echo of a platitude.
  Ambrose Bierce

en A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
  Ernest Hemingway

en It was almost brilliant that he waited until they flipped the ball back,


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