Quote of the day
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Samuel Pepys
Born: February 23, 1633
Died: May 26, 1703 (aged 70)
Bio: Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.
Known for:
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660)
- The Concise Pepys
- Diary and Correspondence
- The Man in the Making
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