Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1669 N.S.
In 1669, Samuel Pepys put pen to paper for the last time, closing a decade of diaries that would become the most intimate portrait of seventeenth-century England ever written. As a naval administrator by day and a ravenous observer by night, Pepys recorded everything: the Great Fire still smoking in memory, the plague's shadow lifting, the court's scandals, his own anxious meditations on money and mortality. His entries leap between the monumental and the mundane with startling frankness - one moment he's dissecting a political maneuver at the Navy Office, the next he's fretting over his wife's mood or bragging about a new suit. Pepys is vain, anxious, curious, and occasionally cruel. He's also irresistibly readable. This is history from the inside out, filtered through a man who understood that the smallest details - what he ate, who he kissed, how the streets smelled - tell the largest truths. For anyone who wants to hear the past breathe.
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“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.””
— Samuel Pepys
“The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.””
— Samuel Pepys
“He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.””
— Samuel Pepys
“And so to bed.””
— Samuel Pepys
“Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all!””
— Samuel Pepys
“I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.””
— Samuel Pepys
“Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.””
— Samuel Pepys
“neighbour of ours, Mr. Hollworthy, a very able man, is also dead by a fall in the country from his horse, his foot hanging in the stirrup, and his brains beat out.””
— Samuel Pepys
“I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her.””
— Samuel Pepys
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