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Commonplace book   /kˈɑmənplˌeɪs bʊk/   Listen
Commonplace book

noun
1.
A notebook in which you enter memorabilia.





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"Commonplace book" Quotes from Famous Books



... opportunity to peer into her secrets, the Grecians and Latinists who dine on a thought of Tacitus, sup on a phrase of Thucydides, spend their life in brushing the dust from library shelves, in keeping guard over a commonplace book, or a papyrus, are all predestined. So great is their abstraction or their ecstasy, that nothing that goes on around them strikes their attention. Their unhappiness is consummated; in full light of noon they scarcely even perceive it. Oh happy men! a thousand times happy! Example: Beauzee, ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part I. • Honore de Balzac


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