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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

  Leadership, Kings, Rain

  'Diary' 19 July 1662

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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

  World, Grows, Fairs

  Samuel PEPYS (1858). “Diary and correspondance of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.,secretary to the admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II”, p.57

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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

  Food, Home, Wife

  Samuel Pepys (2000). “The Diary of Samuel Pepys”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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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

  Sunday, Night, Looks

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.380, Univ of California Press

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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

  Clothes, Wife, Lasts

  Samuel PEPYS (1858). “Diary and correspondance of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.,secretary to the admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II”, p.53

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• However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

  Samuel Pepys

  Music, Business, Giving

  "The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A New and Complete Transcription".

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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

  Prayer, Night, Wife

  Samuel Pepys (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Pepys (Illustrated)”, p.2272, Delphi Classics

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