There’s nothing like reading fine literature to elevate ones mind. With that in mind, I downloaded Pepys’s diary from Gutenberg Press, and am in the process of reading it now.

The diary provides a fascinating window on social life in seventeenth century London. How refined were their manners in contrast with the coarse political backbiting of today!

Here’s a sample:

“Mr. Moore told me of a picture hung up at the Exchange of a great pair of buttocks shooting of a turd into Lawson’s mouth, and over it was wrote “The thanks of the house.” Boys do now cry “Kiss my Parliament, instead of “Kiss my [rump],” so great and general a contempt is the Rump come to among all the good and bad.”

Excerpt From
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
Samuel Pepys

As I said, fine literature...
Maybe we need not be so embarrassed by our own Rump.