Commonplace-book. Formerly Book of common places. orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. First usage recorded: 1578. - OED
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Biography
My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all.
- Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life, quoted in The Christian Imagination, ed. Leland Ryken, 56.
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