Question

why do you think ordinary men and women generally keep records of what they did?
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Answer 1

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Ordinary men and women did not keep a record of what they did because they did not find the events of their daily lives to be of such significance that they had to be recorded. Moreover, hiring a person to keep a record of daily events was an expensive proposition.