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  <h1>Commonplace</h1>
  <p class="subtitle"><span class="italic">noun.</span> a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use.</p>

<blockquote><p class ="large">Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.
  <span class="name"> ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie</span></blockquote>

<blockquote><p class ="large">"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
  <span class="name"> ― Epicurus</span></blockquote>
  
  <blockquote><p class ="large">“It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.” 
  <span class="name">― Mary Oliver, Blue Horses</span></blockquote>
  
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