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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

The best of a bad bargain.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees in pray...

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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...

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Music and women I cannot but give way to whatever my business is.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look a...

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these ...

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Samuel Pepys

Member of Parliament

Born: 1633-02-23

Died: 1703-05-26

Samuel Pepys (February 23 1633 – May 26 1703) was an English naval administrator, Member of Parliament and Fellow of the Royal Society, but is now best remembered for the diary which he kept through the 1660s. It was first published in 1825, and has ever since been considered a unique historical source and human document.More