Happy Birthday, Pepys

Kneller, Samuel Pepys, 1689

But, Lord! to see how much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing what o’clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think with myself, how could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while I lived.

Samuel Pepys, born on this day in 1633, from his diary entry, Saturday 13 May 1665