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Guide to Tautologies: “Read this label before using.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2018

He had cut two Teeth, and three, in another Letter, make five; for I know you never write Tautologies.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

Tautologies will occur, because the ear, in demanding fresh emphasis, has forgotten that the desired force has been already expressed.

From Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Trollope, Anthony