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Samuel Pepys [piːps] war Staatssekretär im englischen Marineamt , Präsident der Royal Society und Abgeordneter des englischen Unterhauses, wurde der Nachwelt aber vor allem als Tagebuchautor und Chronist der Restaurationsepoche unter König Karl II. von England bekannt. Das Tagebuch, das er von 1660 bis 1669 führte, gehört zu den wichtigsten Quellen für diese Zeit und zu den am häufigsten zitierten literarischen Werken des englischen Sprachraums. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Februar 1633 – 26. Mai 1703
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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.”

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Samuel Pepys

Letter to the Master of University College, Oxford; published in J. R. Tanner (ed.) Private Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703 (1926) p. 109. (1700)

“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”

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9 November 1665 http://books.google.com/books?id=azIEAAAAQAAJ&amp;q=%22Strange+to+see+how+a+good+dinner+and+feasting+reconciles+everybody%22&amp;pg=PA120#v=onepage <br class="br">Diary <br class="br">Quelle: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection

“But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.”

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Samuel Pepys

November 27, 1662
Diary

“This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw, which took away the apprehension.”

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Samuel Pepys

June 7, 1665
Written during the Great Plague.
Diary

“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 with any pleasure.”

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Samuel Pepys

March 10, 1666
Diary

“Methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.”

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Samuel Pepys

July 19, 1662
Diary

“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.”

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Samuel Pepys

February 3, 1667
Diary

“Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.”

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September 29, 1662
Diary

“We to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there stayed till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. Barbary and her husband away before us. We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it.”

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Samuel Pepys

September 2, 1666
Of the Great Fire of London.
Diary

“Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.”

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Samuel Pepys

February 9, 1668
Diary

“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.”

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Samuel Pepys

December 25, 1665
Diary

“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 do in that condition.”

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October 13, 1660
Diary

“A good honest and painfull sermon.”

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Samuel Pepys

March 17, 1661
"Painful" here means "painstakingly written".
Diary

“And so to Mrs. Martin and there did what je voudrais avec her, both devante and backward, which is also muy bon plazer.”

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June 3, 1666
Diary

“Pretty witty Nell.”

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Samuel Pepys

April 3, 1665
Diary

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