Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… through long hours at the office and through diligent sociability – he had a talent for making connections and gathering information that helped make him indispensable. Pepys’s sociability prompted by his working roles was accompanied by a … was also intrigued. The Society’s interests were wide-ranging: from exploring manufacturing techniques, to gathering information on foreign lands, to speculation about comets. He enjoyed attending demonstrations of experiments, and … Pepys’s strategic approach to sociability meant he deliberately maintained ties to a wide range of people because of the information they could, or might, provide. He was explicit that this included cultivating those whom he regarded as …
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