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commonplace book
Commonplace book (n.): an edited collection of striking passages noted in a single place for future reference.
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Thursday, May 09, 2002
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." --John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

11:30:37 AM    comment  []    

" . . . people want to believe that wherever there are differences there must be distinctions, even if we're sometimes making them up as we go along." --Geoffrey Nunberg, American linguist, The Way We Talk Now, 2001

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"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." --Arab Proverb

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"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses." --Margaret Millar

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