by Catherine S. Vodrey (Editor)

Commonplace books have been kept by people the world over for centuries. They have long served as repositories for all manner of interesting tidbits: jokes, prayers, aphorisms, recipes, gossip, observations on the weather and the tides, and quotations, to name just a few. This commonplace book - named for Dorothy L. Sayers's wry observation that using quotations "saves original thinking" - is intended to be thought-provoking, broadening, humorous and stimulating.