Platen
In letterpress printing, a platen is the perfectly flat steel (or earlier, wooden) plate which is pressed onto the back of paper to cause an impression to be made from the type. Sometimes spelled platten. Also a roller used in friction-feed printers to hold the paper in position for the print head.
6 Quotes
Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.
— Platen
Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.
— Platen
To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.
— Platen
Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.
— Platen
Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.
— Platen
Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
— Platen