Banalities

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Banality \Ba*nal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Banalities}. [F. banalit['e].
     See {Banal}.]
     Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the
     commonplace, in speech.
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           The highest things were thus brought down to the
           banalities of discourse.                 --J. Morley.
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