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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Com·mon·place, n.
 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
 2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
    Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace.   --Swift.
 Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 commonplace book
      n : a notebook in which you enter memorabilia