Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
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page 132 of 138 (95%)
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The devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester
The monkey loose, which did anger me, and so I did strike her The most ingenious men may sometimes be mistaken The Alchymist,"--[Comedy by Ben Jonson The barber came to trim me and wash me The present Irish pronunciation of English The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant The goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow The plague is got to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier The pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory The world do not grow old at all The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too Their ladies in the box, being grown mighty kind of a sudden Their saws have no teeth, but it is the sand only Their condition was a little below my present state Then to church to a tedious sermon Then home, and merry with my wife Thence by coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her There is no passing but by coach in the streets, and hardly that There did see Mrs. Lane. . . . . There eat and drank, and had my pleasure of her twice There did 'tout ce que je voudrais avec' her There did what 'je voudrais avec' her . . . . There setting a poor man to keep my place There is no man almost in the City cares a turd for him There being no curse in the world so great as this There I did lay the beginnings of a future 'amour con elle' There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered |
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