Keep notes in a commonplace book
Summary
- For may years, people kept their personal notes in a common place book - a book that had journal, interesting facts, quotations and so on.
Details
- Leonardo da Vinci's commonplace books are legendary
Quotes
Centuries ago, when books were rare, those who owned them would lend them to friends, who in turn would copy out passages they especially liked before returning the precious book to its owner. These anthologies came to be known as Commonplace Books, and modern writers as different as W. H. Auden and Alec Guinness have kept them as well, recording phrases or passages that struck them as wise or witty or quirky.
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