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Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Funny
Love
Marriage
Wedding
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The best of a bad bargain.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
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I know not how to abstain from reading.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Knows
Reading
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But it is pretty to see what money will do.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
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My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Lonely
Poor
Wife
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He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Classroom
Pins
Pounds
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Inspirational
New Year's
Dinner
Strange
Everybody
How
See
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Friendship
Friends
Able
Bed
Proud
Real Friends
Mighty
Spare
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However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Music
Business
Giving
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I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Kings
Men
Done
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Happiness
Happy
Smile
Men
Inner Peace
Seems
Whole
Man World Me
Any
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But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Kings
Leadership
Able
Rain
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I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Night
Prayer
Wife
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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 / Member Of Parliament
Looks
Night
Sunday
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But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Jeering
Laughing
Looks
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Wedding
Church
Delight
Married
Poor
Strange
Condition
Fools
Saw
Married People
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At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Mets
Taste
Wine
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Delight
Every Man
Gazing
Married
Poor
Strange
Condition
Fools
Married People
Smiling
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I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Opportunity
Giving
Wife
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Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Fairs
Grows
World
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Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Bed
Book
Reading
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Happiness
Men
Cheerful
Condition
Hanged
Cross
Drawn
Major
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Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Artist
Doe
Hands
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Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
God
Drinking
Wine
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Drinking
Idle
Leaving
Thanks
Wine
Less Money
Less Time
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Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Clothes
Lasts
Wife
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I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Food
Home
Wife
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And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Cutting
Fashion
People
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It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Night
Pain
Wind
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Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Men
Fighting
Mind
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I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Business
Giving
Way
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To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Men
Morning
People
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Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Age
Differences
Mind
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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 / Member Of Parliament
Age
Men
Knowing
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Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.
Samuel Pepys / Member Of Parliament
Running
Fire
Wings
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