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- It is estimated that Leonardo, arguably the world’s most famous note taker, may have “filled his notebooks at the rate of about a thousand pages a year,” Allen writes.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/books/review/notebook-roland-allen-agatha-christie-henry-james-mark-twain.html
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