We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.Winston Churchill, quoted in Walter Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk (New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2012), p. 271 (copyright 1982)
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
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