I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above … - Samuel Pepys

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Samuel Pepys

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.

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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.

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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.

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