Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 60: December 1667

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A sequence of daily journal entries balances intimate domestic detail—meals, family, music, errands, and small personal observations—with reporting on public affairs, administrative work, and political controversy. The writer records office duties, parliamentary disputes and factional maneuvering, local scandals and official investigations, and practical concerns about money and property, shifting tone between personal amusement and anxious commentary on governance and public order.

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     A gainful trade, but yet make me great trouble
     Every body leads, and nobody follows
     Lady Castlemayne's nose out of joynt
     Make a man wonder at the good fortune of such a fool
     Mr. William Pen a Quaker again
     Run over their beads with one hand, and point and play and talk
     Silence; it being seldom any wrong to a man to say nothing
     Speaks rarely, which pleases me mightily
     Sport to me to see him so earnest on so little occasion
     Supper and to bed without one word one to another
     Voyage to Newcastle for coles