Some of our maids sitting up late to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.

— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) September 2, 2019

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on: September 01, 2019 at 11:03PM

Interrupted I was by two or three occasions this day to my great vexation, having this the only day I have been able to set apart for this work since my coming to town.

— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) February 7, 2019

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on: February 07, 2019 at 02:32PM

It was dangerous to walk the streets, the bricks and tiles falling from the houses that the whole streets were covered with them; and whole chimneys, nay, whole houses in two or three places, blowed down.

— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) January 24, 2019

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on: January 24, 2019 at 10:30AM

Up, and all the morning very busy with multitude of clients, till my head began to be overloaded.

— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) April 27, 2017

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on: April 27, 2017 at 08:15AM

I sat up till now, all alone, cold, and my candle not enough left to light me to my owne house.

— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) February 18, 2017

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on: February 18, 2017 at 12:04AM

I went to the Temple, and there spent my time in a Bookseller’s shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &c.

— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) December 17, 2016

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on: December 17, 2016 at 11:58AM

I expected musique, but there was none but only trumpets and drums, which displeased me.

— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) October 29, 2016

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on: October 29, 2016 at 10:42AM

I did try to make a song in the praise of a liberall genius (as I take my own to be) to all studies and pleasures.

— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) November 3, 2014

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on: November 03, 2014 at 02:32PM