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
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Idle Thoughts
I concluded that there were few troubling situations in contemporary life from which one could not distract oneself by wondering where the electricity had arrived from.
-Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, 209.
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