Samuel Pepys - People Quotes

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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.

Samuel Pepys
The people die so, that now it seems they are fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be inside by nine at night that the sick may leave their domestic prison for air and exercise.

Samuel Pepys
Up and with my wife to church, where Mr. Mills made an unnecessary sermon on Original Sin, neither understood by himself, nor the people.

Samuel Pepys
Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all!

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In the heighth of it [the plague]…bold people there were to go in sport to one another's burials. And in spite to well people, would breathe in the faces…of well people going by.

Samuel Pepys
But Lord! how everybody's looks, and discourse in the street, is of death, and nothing else; and few people going up and down, that the town is like a place distressed and forsaken.

Samuel Pepys
Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Samuel Pepys
I saw a dead corpse in a coffin lie in the close unburied—and a watch is constantly kept there, night and day, to keep the people in—the plague making us cruel as dogs one to another.

Samuel Pepys
The town grows very sickly, and people to be afeared of it — there dying this last week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before — whereof, one in Fanchurch-street and one in Broadstreete by the Treasurer's office.

Samuel Pepys
And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

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