unintentional irony

[lapin_agile]

I love reading Samuel Pepys's diary because the man is so often thoroughly blinkered in his view of himself. Consider, for instance, the following passage from "yesterday's" entry:Lay very long in bed discoursing with Mr. Hill of most things of a man's life, and how little merit do prevail in the world, but only favour; and that, for myself, chance

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[sam_t]

To be fair, being capsized on the Thames would have been rather more than just inconvenient, but agreed about Pepys in general. Have you seen Claire Tomalin's biography?