PLATITUDE

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.