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Quotes and Images From the Diary of Samuel Pepys · Samuel Pepys — chapter 11 of 28 · ~287 words · public domain

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Greatest businesses are done so superficially

Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay

Had his hand cut off, and was hanged presently!

Had what pleasure almost I would with her

Had the umbles of it for dinner

Half a pint of Rhenish wine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer

Hanged with a silken halter

Hanging jack to roast birds on

Hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure

Hate in others, and more in myself, to be careless of keys

Hates to have any body mention what he had done the day before

Hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years

Hath a good heart to bear, or a cunning one to conceal his evil

Hath given her the pox, but I hope it is not so

Have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me

Have not any awe over them from the King's displeasure (Commons)

Have not much to lose, and therefore will venture all

Have been so long absent that I am ashamed to go

Having some experience, but greater conceit of it than is fit

He that will not stoop for a pin, will never be worth a pound

He made but a poor sermon, but long

He has been inconvenienced by being too free in discourse

He having made good promises, though I fear his performance

He hoped he should live to see her "ugly and willing"

He is too wise to be made a friend of

He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while

He was charged with making himself popular

He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I

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