commonplace book
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As it happens, I’ve kept my own commonplace book since I was in college.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
Besides keeping my own commonplace book, I enjoy reading similar compilations by others.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
It is a “blog” in the proper sense — a “web log,” part commonplace book and part ledger of a life.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2019
And he took copious notes, organized by topic, in his commonplace book — the database of the era.
From Nature ● May 1, 2018
Samuel Adams’s master’s thesis was “delivered in flawless Latin,” Alexander Hamilton copied Demosthenes into his commonplace book, and Thomas Jefferson modeled his oratory on the prose of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
