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Excerpt from Samuel Pepys: Administrator, Observer, Gossip IT is inevitable that any book on Pepys should have long and frequent quotations from his Diary inevitable also that however much is put in much that is interesting, amusing, and characteristic should be left out. N O re-telling Of Pepys' Diary is to be tolerated, and that is the justification for ample quotation, for there is neither gain nor wisdom in attempting to turn his own inimitable phrases into a modern and most inferior version. SO wherever a thing can be told in Pepys' words I have so told it - any one who writes Of him, at the best, can only be a showman, and the place Of a showman is in the background when the principal actor is on the stage. Or in the metaphor Of Sir Walter Scott The subject is like a good sirloin, which requires only to be basted with its own drippings - therefore discreet cook and retiring showman are the humble parts I have attempted in this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.