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Pepys, Samuel
     
Pepys, Samuel
(1633-1703) an English writer famous for his diary (=a book in which you write what happens to you each day), which describes his personal life and the important events of the time, such as the Great Fire of London, and gives a lot of information about what life was like at the time
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