The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

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Forbes writer Kerry Dolan notes the new fundraising promises to make Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg a far richer billionaire.

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Peter York, a writer on posh London, notes that a previous generation built shockingly ostentatious houses in Mayfair, with running water and lots of marble.

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The newly discovered poems include several from World War I, including one titled Never Again In Any Port, as well as notes from a journal the writer kept on a tour of the war graves of Belgium and France in 1924.

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